We are buying honey for its medicinal and health benefits, but due to increased global demand and lack of public awareness, many popular brands and local honey vendors adulterate their honey products with cheap sugar syrup, caramelized sucrose, toxic chemicals and pesticides that are harmful to consumers.

Though honey is a high-value natural sweetener, it is rich in health promoting antioxidants, flavonoids, polyphenols and minerals. But at present what we buy from the market is poor in these.

Smart way to fool the public is by keeping white sugar syrup solution near bee farms. The farmed bees (not forest bees) pickup sugar syrup and make honey. This honey is sold as pure honey and claimed as unadulterated honey. It is very difficult to test.

We have PCR based tests to distinguish farmed honey from forest honey to help everyone to enjoy the taste of real honey.