100% Australian honey 3kg $17.99 at Costco. $6 off the regular price for 2 weeks.
Winn Australian Honey 3KG $17.99 @ Costco (Membership Required)
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RSmith on 08/05/2023 - 15:38 costco.com.au (1409 clicks)
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I have no idea. I only use honey to make butter chicken so in the end it doesn't really matter…
Why doesn't it matter - does it evaporate?
Because I'm not fussed if it unadulterated or not.
@RSmith: Oh ….OK then. If you eat fast food alot then adulterated honey is the least of your worries.
I think he/she means that all the benefits of it being "raw" once its used in cooking are gone.
@KnifeEnthusiastBoi: It's not at all about raw vs. pasteurised or whatever.
It's about taste and quality. If your tastebuds are broken or you're mixing it with so many different things that you can get away with cheap sugar syrup, then why kid yourself and buy fake honey? You may as well go the full hog and buy golden syrup, honest imitation honey or any number of cheaper alternatives.
I haven't had this particular costco stuff, so IDK if this is fake or not (the label is certainly no authority, it hasn't been in the past!), but I'm just saying in the general sense.
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100% Pure Australian Honey - that's what it says on the current flyer and an actual tub of it I have here from the last time it was on sale.
Yeah but I read that as tricky-Scomo-marketing-speak that it's true blue dinky-die Aussie honey but what about being 100% pure honey?
The label isn't going to say if it is adulterated with sugar syrup. That's like the Usana vitamin salesman telling you their fish oil is mercury free because it doesn't say mercury on the label (true story)
The label in the Costco image and the description state that it's 100% honey, NOT 100% Australian honey.
Winn 100% Natural Honey 3 kg.
Packed in Australia. Ingredient sources vary. Average 25% Australian Ingredients. Balance is New Zealand HoneyNew Zealand gives me cause for concern. Their labelling laws are notoriously lax, and they may be importing chinese 'honey' and repackaging in New Zealand
@greatlamp: Actually Nz doesn’t import honey.
Regardless, do yourself a favor for winter and find some fresh unpasteurized local honey from a local beekeeper. Your body will thank you.
@wiha: Source?
"In 2021, New Zealand imported $730k in Honey"
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/honey/reporte…
I think they have changed the label! I also have an older bucket from 6 months ago with ‘100% pure Australian Natural Honey’ and small print ‘Made in Australia from local ingredients,. The thumbnail in this post has a slightly different label.
Unadulterated honey refers to pure honey that has not been altered or adulterated with any other substances. It means that the honey is free from any additives, such as sugar, corn syrup, or artificial flavors, and has not undergone any processing that changes its composition.
It says 100% Australian honey
So yes.
Refer to the comments made by other folks here.
I'm unconvinced due to the price & the fact it's sold in a bucket.
I'm unconvinced due to the price & the fact it's sold in a bucket.
Do you expect it in a bee hive?
https://www.winnhoney.com/regular-honey
100% Natural
Winn Honey is unprocessed, raw honey straight from our beehives. No added colour, artificial flavour or synthetic substance.@deme: C3 or C4 additives are “natural” and not at all synthetic. As usual it’s all in the definition/fine print and not the marketing spin.
BTW, Nothing wrong with additives as long as the consumer is aware and can exercise an informed choice. After all you cannot really taste a good additive.
I have consumed my fair share of non pure honey, however these days I make a conscious choice and in getting a high quality product. If it sounds too good, I give it a miss.
maybe the sugar is Australian.
This isn't the USA where you can pass off some cheese with wood as cheese.
If you put sugar in, then it's no longer 100% honey.
Yeah, we've bought it last year, and no, it's not a real honey.
This should be posted under "competitions".
Not recommend, smell and taste not good.
Not allow
Who on earth needs 3kg of honey?
yummy yummy honey in my tummy
Oh, bother…
Why not, it doesn't expire.
I've gone through a couple of 20kg tubs from MCQ before. Cheap honey is good for making mead.
I was looking for a mead comment.
Winne the Pooh.
This honey is the lowest quality honey, blended, for cooking purpose ok as this type of commercial honey has no Nutrients and quality, just pure sweet syrup honey.
Good quality Raw, cold extracted honey start's from @20/kg.
Which brands of honey do you recommend?
Definitely look on gumtree / Facebook marketplace for small backyard bee keepers.
Even the ones that supplies a few fruit stores are not as good.
How do we know if they actually buy these 3kg bucket and repack them into smaller containers to resell as backyard honey? Seriously I am not an expert and can’t really tell unless take it to run a lab test?
@wtfnodeal: Obvious taste difference.
Plus the private stuff sells for $10/kg. They wouldn’t go through all that trouble just to lose money.Like other fresh produce you pay more at local farmers market to get better quality. Some people are happy with the cheapest they can get, some want more in life
@wtfnodeal: Honestly the difference is so significant you would be able to tell easily. Non commercial honey will have strong flavours and scents of the local area.
@wtfnodeal: Unlikely, but a legitimate concern, esp at this price. You'll rarely be able to do a taste test and even then most of us wouldn't be able to tell. I've tried many small area honies which I didn't like, so mediocre combined honey like this would probably be acceptable to most. The key is to know your local suppliers or only buy from reputable sources.
I'm sorry, but this is hilariously out of touch.
If you're a honey aficionado maybe the advice to find random beekeepers on facebook or gumtree would be sound (but such people wouldn't need the advice in the first place).
Not everyone has such a person within reasonable travel distance, plus the random availability, concerns about passing off fake stuff, etc. What's needed is some trustworthy brand recommendations that 90%+ of the population can access, and even if it's pricey, get a baseline of what 'decent proper honey' is like.
I, for one, like Tasmanian leatherwood honey in the black tins, from 'The Tasmanian Honey Company' - you can find it on Amazon AU for example, just click 'see all buying options' - But that has a pretty unique flavour lol.
@Grazz989: I find it hilarious that you think my advice is out of touch when it’s the best way to get genuine organic honey lol. Amazon on the other hand, can’t imagine if it’s much different to the supermarket stuff.
I’ve been getting my honey supply from a small backyard been keeper found on FB for the past 5 years. I gift them as souvenirs to people overseas so taste is very important. One time I made the mistake of buying from the local fruit store for convenience and was told the taste is much inferior.I learned the lesson of never buying anything remotely commercial.
I literally just found another guy on FB again and bought 10kg on the weekend. If you want specific recommendation pm me I can give you their phone number/ ad, they won an award in the Royal QLD show if that matters to you.
Almost forgot, you can also try local farmers market. Most people actually allow you to taste test.
@Prince K: It's not Amazon brand you muppet, it's a marketplace. Companies sell through Amazon, and they don't even necessarily use their warehouses to do it.
I've had loads of it and it's a league different from supermarket stuff, but it also has a unique Leatherwood related taste that most people wouldn't really expect, so it's not the best example of just the normal difference between garbage Chinese adulterated honey and real good stuff.
Your anecdote doesn't really mean anything at all. Again, not everyone is lucky to live within a reasonable distance of people or markets with guaranteed good quality honey (e.g. inner Sydney) and it's ludicrous to think the average person is going to go to the effort of finding random people on gumtree and buying unregulated food 10kg at a time. But the average person MIGHT just order the occasional ~500g jar or tin etc of premium product from a reputable company.
Not sure how they do it at this price, even if low quality. I was just hunting around for info, and I don't think wholesale honey would be available for $6/kg, let alone packaging it into $3kg tubs for consumer consumption.
Loss leading?…or…honey laundering?
Molasses or treacle are quite cheap :-)
It's probably mostly Chinese sugar syrup.
Weird. That one says 100% Au, with what appears to be an Au Made logo on the image.
The Costco one has no Au logo and says ' packed in Au, made from average 25% Au honey and the rest NZ honey.'At the price it's unlikely to be a quality product if that's a concern.
So, it's kind of like Crowded House honey?
Though I guess the portions would vary, depending on the lineup.
Hah ha, yes, but Crowded House were undeniable quality.
I bought it. Don't like it, taste not good. My 3yo used to smash honey and peanut butter sandwiches then completely went off them with this honey.
Could try your hand at beekeeping. We have a couple of hives at home, but it is hard work. That said, a friend of ours has a child who will no longer eat honey but that from our hives - so it's pretty good stuff!
There's certainly something about the flavour, and we know that it hasn't been adulterated or heavily processed.
Jesus. Must be chinese imported and relabeled as NZ. It's got to be proper rubbish if it puts kids off honey and PB sammiches! Far out.
I have honey. Please extract it out from the tap
Do you recommend? Is it 100% unadulterated honey?