> from memory > 45% of honey presented at Honey Show Apimondia Montreal
> proved to be some sort of fake. 

The challenge with using honey profiling NMR based on an existing honey database is what happens when a honey tested is not in the database. Several of the boreal forest honeys I tested including one of mine tested as adulterated. I even added sugar syrup on purpose at different concentrations to a real honey to understand thresholds and sugar ratios affected on the spectrum.

Several of our nectar sources are endemic to Northern BC, Yukon and Alaska. Most beekeepers are isolated and because of insulation we typically dont have to feed in spring. Fireweed honey gets flagged due to extreme low Proline and the odd sugar spike not in the database of “European honeys”. Most of the boreal honeys were flagged as not typical to Canada as there is still a limited number of Canadian honeys in the database which is dominated by prairie honey.
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