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Re: Honey vs HFCS (again)
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:14:28 -0800
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> >Honey is capped at or below 19%. I don’t know what percent means here. In
> math, percent is: part divided by whole times 100. In medicine, 70%
> dextrose is: 70 grams of sugar per one hundred mils.
>

Honey concentration is typically calculated w:w; the medicinal example is
calculated w:v.

The Mann Lake syrup product Prosweet has a lesser sugar concentration,
undiluted, than does honey


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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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