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Oxalate is a normal metabolic product of all major taxa of plants. Thus you will eat it as a normal part of your diet unless you eat a no plant diet. Oxalate is also a normal metabolic end product of the mammalian liver. Thus even if you do not eat any oxalate your own body will produce some. Mammals do not have the metabolic pathways to digest or degrade oxalates. But, any oxalate in your gut is at least partly degraded by the normal bacteria in your gut as some bacteria are able to use it as a food source. You also excrete it in urine. Thus at normal daily doses it is simply a normal part of life. Like any chemical, including water, at too high a dose it will become a poison and can potentially kill you.
Honey contains some oxalate as a normal constituent as has been reported on this forum several times. The normal amount varies over a fairly wide range depending on the nectar sources, but in all cases is very small compared to the amount in a normal diet. Studies of honey produced from hives treated with oxalic acid to control mites have shown such treatments do little to the amount of oxalic acid in the honey. Regardless, the amount of oxalate in honey is very low compared to the typical oxalate daily consumption of anyone eating the recommended amount of plant material in their diet. And even if you managed to eat an oxalate free diet your own liver is going to make some anyhow. I fail to see why anyone has any concern about the oxalate in honey.
Pathogens 2013, 2(4), 636-652; https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens2040636
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