That honey you’re buying might not really be honey

Dyandra Morris, special to wtop.com

WASHINGTON – Winnie the Pooh wouldn’t be a happy camper if he knew his honey wasn’t real.

That container of sweet amber-brown goodness in your cabinet that you call honey, could be a hoax.

Food Safety News conducted a test using more than 60 containers of honey from ten states and D.C.

The results showed that, three in four brands of honey purchased use ultra-filtering to remove pollen.

Food Safety News lists 29 brands of “honey” that has been ultra-filtered, which isn’t considered to be honey, according to FDA standards.

Mark Jensen, President of the American Honey Producers Association, says that all the ultra-filtering does is cost money and hide its origins.

Without traces of pollen, there is no way of telling if the honey came from a safe source says the World Health Organization.

The process of ultra-filtering stems from China, where your honey more than likely comes from.

WTOP’s Nathan Hager contributed to this report.Follow WTOP on Twitter.