i didn't have a chance to read the whole article yet, but i buy really raw honey. or from a local beekeeper. i think it's the propolis in the honey that has all the really good stuff in it ... remember the cosmetics royal jelly from honey?
anyway the honey i like, the raw honey, also has honeycomb and a few bits of pollen in it.
but some guests did not appreciate it at all ... and it is expensive. so i went with a local beekeeper so i knew where the honey came from ... his honey was strained but not filtered, like the guests expected. i am trying to remember if there was a problem with honey from sick bees a while back, somewhere. and there was/is honey that is a mixture of honey and corn syrup!
some guests went nuts over the local honey (i kept the really raw for me) it was sort of like maple syrup with the guests. some were content with artificial, others were ecstatic for real syrup ... and were surprised that maine had its own maple syrup, not just vermont..