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FOOD making carbs count
A bee sting?
Raising awareness of fake honey in UK supermarkets.
Award-winning B Corp
certified British beekeeper
collective Black Bee
Honey is on a mission to
highlight the fake honey being sold
to shoppers in UK supermarkets by
campaigning for more independent
testing to be carried out on imported
honey.
Around half a million tons of
honey are sold in the UK every year
but its quality and environmental
impact is poor. Most of the honey
on offer in our supermarkets is
imported, with its origin often listed
as 'a blend of EU and non-EU honey'.
Many consumers believe the honey
they're buying is 100% pure when it's
actually a mix of imported blended
honey.
Black Bee Honey beekeeper
founders Paul Webb and Chris
Barnes have a passion for bees and
began with hives in their own back
gardens and they soon discovered
how delicious honey tasted straight
from the hive - worlds apart from
the imported honey found on
supermarket shelves. Inspired, they
soon left their design jobs for the
rooftops and gardens of London
where they cared for more than a
million bees and established Black
Bee Honey.
Faking it
Co-founder Paul Webb says,
"Adulterated or fake honey being
imported into the UK has been
happening for many years but is
only now coming to light. It has
had a massively negative impact
on UK honey producers, artificially
lowering the price expectation of a
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