Raw unfiltered honey keeps well for long periods of time. Tess Pennington (quoted above) buys two 20-pound pails each year and only one pail has ever crystallized, a year later.The best place to ...

What’s most impressive about raw honey is that it contains nearly 30 types of bioactive plant compounds. These are called polyphenols, and they act as antioxidants (3, 8, 9).

For instance, the "Pure Clover Honey" features Argentinian and U.S. honey, while the "Raw Organic Honey Bears" Costco sells use honey from Brazil due to a paucity of organic honey in the U.S.

For American-made honey, the "organic" boast, experts say, is highly suspect. Beekeepers may be doing their part, but honeybees have a foraging range of several miles, exposing them to pesticides ...