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Title: Raw honey in plastic?
Post by: Spirit Bear on April 24, 2013, 12:40:04 pm

I love the local raw honey and bee pollen I get but the honey, I guess for ethical reasons is packaged in plastic containers. The pollen is in glass because it's frozen while fresh. I know some kind of bleach is made when honey is mixed with water, but does honey have any other properties that might leach chemicals from the plastic?

I'm sure they use a modern BPA-free plastic but I don't know much about plastic to be honest. I had a conversation with a guy while collecting water and he told me that old plastic is better than new plastic for storing water in. Any comments on this?

Title: Re: Raw honey in plastic?
Post by: svrn on April 25, 2013, 07:00:08 am

Id bet old is better since although they knew about things like bpa since the 1890s it wasnt used widely as a biological weapon in plastic until relatively recently  as far as I know.

Title: Re: Raw honey in plastic?
Post by: LePatron7 on August 06, 2013, 04:10:17 am

Bump

I got some honey from Miller's Organic Farm (best I ever had), it was refrigerated. When I first opened it it tasted great and felt very nourishing. However after leaving it in a sealed plastic container in my room for a while it seems some fermentation has taken place (when I opened it bottle sort of "popped," also some bubbles at the top) and it doesn't taste as good.

Is honey one of those things that need to be removed from a plastic container and transferred to a glass one, like a mason jar?

Title: Re: Raw honey in plastic?
Post by: Dr. D on August 06, 2013, 07:26:43 am

I've always got my fresh raw honey straight from our beekeeper and always in glass jars. He is very aware of the necessity of honey being raw and even notes it on the label about keeping honey under 120 degrees to maintain enzymes and quality.

Any honey I have received from the store in plastic containers usually has a funny flavor and I can't eat it.

As far as fermenting... I havent had any luck in fermenting honey the way PP talks about it. I tried doing moist jars, adding water, completely sealed in warm weather, with no bubbles whatsoever. I always use glass or ceramic as an overall principal in life.

Title: Re: Raw honey in plastic?
Post by: Sorentus on February 18, 2014, 09:06:35 am

I had honey from a plastic jar that I put in a mason jar and forgot about it for a while. After maybe 3 months I ate some and it was all crystallized, it tasted 10 times better.