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Raw unfiltered honey has a tendency to crystallize sooner than commercially processed honey.  It is fine to eat it after it crystallizes. If you do not like the texture you can gently warm it (no hotter than 102 degrees!) until it re-liquefies.  Be patient, this can take a long time, but do not try to rush it by raising the heat or you may destroy some of the honeys beneficial properties. 


Lone Oak Honey Company raw honey is strained, not filtered, and is never heated. This preserves the natural active phytonutrients (1), probiotics (8), prebiotics and pollen (2)found in honey.  My bees are never treated with antibiotics or organic acids, so there is no chance of these things contaminating my honey (3).  I only treat my hives for mites, and only when absolutely necessary to keep the bees alive.  This helps ensure that there is nothing in my honey that the bees did not put there themselves.  Also, my processing practice makes sure nothing beneficial is ever removed.  Commercial honey companies heat their honey to high temperatures and use ultrafiltration to make the honey easier to bottle and to keep it from crystallizing in storage.  This makes honey that is attractive on the grocery store shelves, but the filtration and heat remove or destroy so many of the beneficial things that were in the raw honey.

When you eat phytonutrients, they may help prevent disease and keep your body working properly (9) also probiotics and prebiotics help keep a balanced digestive system.  Heating honey above 108 degrees F can change or remove the enzymes, aromas and flavors that are naturally present.

Some people with seasonal allergies claim a year round daily spoonful of raw local honey, honey that has not had the pollen filtered out, lessens the severity of their allergies.  The theory is that a constant low level of exposure to the local pollen builds your immunity for when pollen levels are high.


1:  DoctorOZ,com,  http://www.doctoroz.com/slideshow/5-healthy-uses-honey
2:  National Honey Board, pollen results from 2012 Study – Comparison of Vitamin, Mineral and Antioxidant Levels in Raw and Processed Honey, http://www.honey.com/tools-tips-and-resources/2012-study-comparison-of-vitamin-mineral-and-antioxidant-levels-in-raw-and
3: American Bee Journal, The Remarkable Honey Bee – October 2013 Integrated Pest Management of Varroa in North America by Larry Connor, http://www.americanbeejournal.com/site/epage/141163_828.htm
4: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service: U.S. Honey Bee Losses www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572
5: Pesticide residues in beeswax samples collected from honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) in France.
Chauzat MP1, Faucon JP. Pest Manag Sci. 2007 Nov;63(11):1100-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17879980
6: Managed Pollinator CAP: Pesticides and their involvement in Colony Collapse Disorder Jointly published in the American Bee Journal and in Bee Culture, August 2011
Jim Frazier, Chris Mullin, Maryann Frazier and Sara Ashcraft, Pennsylvania State University
http://www.beeccdcap.uga.edu/documents/caparticle16.htm
7: The Honey Prescription: by Nathaniel Altman
8: A Quick View of the IBD-AID Diet, University of Massachusetts Medical School
http://www.umassmed.edu/nutrition/healthy-eating/gastrointestinal/ibdquickview/
9: Phytonutrients, WebMD. http://www.webmd.com/diet/phytonutrients-faq
10: Report on the National Stakeholders Conference on Honey Bee Health
National Honey Bee Health Stakeholder Conference Steering Committee
page 1  http://www.usda.gov/documents/ReportHoneyBeeHealth.pdf