Any sources on the honey? Also, are you aware of any good resources for vetting various brands while shopping in store? I'd love some scanner app that would just tell me if it was fake or not.
I think the only way to know for sure is to identify the pollen grains under a microscope. If you can't find any, the origin of the honey has been concealed with filtration, and is therefore statistically likely to contain mostly Chinese honey, based solely on examination of amounts produced and amounts exported. If you can find some pollen, but there doesn't seem to be enough, honey with an identifiable origin was probably cut with filtered honey.
Honey can also be "laundered" by feeding it to another hive, then extracting from their combs.
There is no scanner app. If it's in stores, its origin is suspect. Buy honey directly from your local apiary. They will be able to tell you exactly where the hives were feeding before the honey was harvested, and the honey from some locations, or from single-flower honey, has a very different taste than the store-shelf-standard clover honey.
Are there any easier tests that don't involve a microscope, particularly to sort out HFCS in the honey? Like, do they have different melting points, or any other easily testable solution?
