1kg Honey Bramwells brand, mixed Blossom Honey Sweet & Rich,
Label suggests 10% Australian ingredients.
This product had the "New Tag" on the shelf, have just used it in some honey cookies 🍪
Tasty 👍
Rear of product label 👇
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/37391/115232/20240824_…
Cannot locate product on ALDI website yet so have attached photos, unsure if state specific so also added QLD tag.
They're likely referring to the container and its lid being 10%.
But the label says -
Ingredients - Honey (100%)
I'm guessing they're using 10% local to avoid saying where the other 90% is from.
There's a fair bit of adulteration of honey especially from China & Turkey (who produce 1/3 of global honey).
I'd be interested to see the results of a Isotope ratio mass spectrometry scan to see how much additives are in there.
It's quite expensive for 90% mystery sugar. For a bit more you can get 100% Australian honey.
My guess is 10% australian honey. 90% imported honey for the rest. But don't quote me on that
My guess is that this is cheap for a reason.
My guess is that you have read it too literally.
Buy this, some different chillies like Habanero, birds eye, Jalapenos. If you really want to blow your head off buy some Carolina Reaper chillies from Coles and use those.
Then make Hot Honey!!
Take 4-5 of whatever chilli you want or can handle and dice finely, I find Habanero is the sweet spot for most people, I also leave the seeds.
1 cup of honey, or more if you want to make more just increase the chilli amount to compensate. This 1kg should give you 4 jars of hot honey at 1 cup each jar.
Place all in a pot over medium heat and stir till bubbles start forming. I find the stirring important as it really gets the capsaicin oil from the chillies all throughout the honey.
Then simply let it cool and jar it. You can strain the chilli out or leave it. I like leaving it as you can get that extra real hit of full blown chilli when you get a piece.
Enjoy!
Gave some to my kids Year 2 teacher and she said it was amazing.
Any serving suggestions? Same as not hot honey?
Add to any dish that requires sweetness and heat. Asian food, etc.
Yeah same as normal. Had it on peanut butter toast, delicious.
Also goes amazing on pizza or fried chicken.
Thanks. My partner gave me some chilli honey recently and i drizzle it over savoury things that could do a bit of heat. Especially during the cooking process as the honey infuses into the ingredients.
Lol, used to be 20%.
Iirc this was one of the honies claimed to be adulterated (disputed), likely with sugar syrup.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/fake-honey-…
Brands weren't exposed in the linked article but a few were "leaked".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/capilano-and-supermar…
Used to buy it - mainly to add to tea - but it always had a slightly strange flavour and daughter convinced me to support Australian harvesters. Pollinators are critical to Australian farming so it's local or nothing for us.
IMO it’s better spending a little extra for local honey. Good for the local environment, should taste a bit better and you know it’s not fake honey. 🍯
This isn’t worth the risk imo. Better to buy actual honey, the 100% Australian stuff.
What makes the 100% Australian stuff any more real?
We have far better food safety standards and don’t add things to our honey here.
Many of the ‘honey’ products being imported into Australia are, in fact, not honey. In 2016, the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC), tested honey imported from Asia proving it to be C4 sugars (likely corn syrup) rather than the honey sugar classification of C3. Check out “When Honey Isn’t Honey” for the full report. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/when-honey-isnt-honey/mf…
Considering there are such stringent testing on imported food now (according to the article you linked), there doesn't seem to be any risk.
@magic8ballgag: You think they test each and every batch that comes here?
Same goes with any and all food products that get here. Some get tested some gets through untested.
@xoom: No, but I don't think a giant supermarket conglomerate like Aldi would allow fake products to be sold in their stores.
@magic8ballgag: Not enough testing is being done, supermarkets just point to the government and say they are responsible for imported food safety.
https://honeybee.org.au/industry-hub/imported-honey-fighting…
@OzzyBrak: It seems that even true blue Aussie brands such as Capilano have failed testing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/capilano-and-supermar…
@magic8ballgag: Correct.
The adulterated samples were all products that blend local and imported honey.
Stick to 100% Australian honey mate.
@OzzyBrak: My point is that even Capilano (easily the most well-known honey producer in Australia) states their honey is 100% Australian, yet it isn't.
So how do we confidently choose honey if even the 100% Aussie stuff (the actual honey by your words) is adulterated?
@magic8ballgag: I think you need to reread your own article mate.
The adulterated samples were all products that blend local and imported honey.
ASX-listed Capilano's Allowrie-branded Mixed Blossom Honey, which sources honey from Australia and overseas, and markets itself as 100 per cent honey, showed up as "adulterated" in the majority of samples tested.
There is no suggestion that Capilano's eponymous brand of Australian-sourced honey has any issue or that Capilano or other brands were aware of the adulteration.
Once again, stick to 100% Australian Honey
@OzzyBrak: How do we know 100% Australian honey is 100% Australian honey when even big brands such as Capilano are importing honey?
@magic8ballgag: Because they label it as a mix of Australian and Imported honey on the container, exactly like the imported honey in this ‘deal’.
No major company will wilfully fake country of origin labelling, its much easier to import junk and pretend its honey based on an outdated C4 test and claim to not know when found out.
Considering there are such stringent testing on imported food now (according to the article you linked), there doesn't seem to be any risk.
Nothing in the article suggests that, esp wrt honey.
Standards are only as strong as enforcement and very few products are regularly tested. We run a risk-based testing system based on compliance. Inspections/tests reduce commensurate with compliance. Can't recall too many public health issues relating to imported food so it must be working well enough. Last scare was frozen berries from memory.
Old article but I doubt there has been significant tightening since: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/19/failure-to-…
@Igaf: Even harder with something like this that doesn’t infect people with hepatitis, and instead just passes off hard to detect cheap sugar syrup as honey.
@OzzyBrak: Yep. In the same vein it seems unlikely no adulterated olive oil made its way here. Ditto for seafood substitution.
I paid like $11.99 for 1L of 100% Aussie honey at Harris Farm not long ago. Buy Aussie
Buy and support your local bee club.
Bees which are cared for better produce higher quality bioactive honey that hasn't been messed around with. Local honey around suburbia usually has broader spectrum of forage and therefore pollen and nectar goodies.
I still have a couple of about 2-3 year old jars of honey in my kitchen cupboard from when my dad and his wife took up beekeeping as a hobby in their backyard… It was amazing how quickly their 1 hive grew into 2 hives, then 3, then 4, and when it grew to 5 they decided to give up the hobby, and found someone willing to take their hives off of their hands.
No thanks, and consumers should be pushing back against the flurry of cheap imports by the big supermarket chains.
Should be labelled as 90% un-Australian.
Enough said.
Ha ha, reversing the emphasis, I like it.
P.S. Was recently told consuming honey from your local area can help those who suffer Hayfever. No idea if true… But can see some logic here.
it was a theory someone came up with that has been disproven, but spread like pollen in the wind anyway.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical/no-eating-honey-wo…
Cheers for the link, but I must say…as a scientific article, that's a 0/10. Even suggesting 'you would have to eat it 'everyday' to have an effect. Well yeah ,why wouldn't you put it on your cereal everyday? Weetbix and honey are great mates!
BUT…I did look up the referred Malaysian study (which is also pretty loose). Problem with that being the control also had a significant reduction, along with the treatment. Obviously peoples allergies reduce as the season moves along. So their results would be as you would expect. But the honey treatment was still slightly, and statistically significantly better.
They really need to have a honey treatment pre allergy season (for a known allergic group). Then see what happens when the season hits.
So I would say it's not clearly conclusive, but certainly wont hurt. To give yourself the best chance of consuming the pollen that is causing your allergen, eat as local as you can. Worse case, your Weetbix will taste better and nothing will happen.
The ole $10 bucket has moved up to the ole $12 bucket here now. Based on everything else going on, I'm happy with that.
Word (albeit second hand) from a local apiarist is to stock up on your honey. Varroa mite is causing some havoc even in areas not yet infected (monitoring, queen replacement…). Just passing on his advice
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10% Australian INGREDIENTS? Last time i checked real honey has just 1 ingredient… Honey. My guess is that this is cheap for a reason.