Hey Bill, I know ALL that. The issue I'm trying to get at is the HFCS 
is being blamed for obesity, where other sweeteners don't seem to 
share in the blame. If there IS something in HFCS that is to blame, 
and some of it is being relocated into the honey and the changes in 
it brought about by the bees doesn't change what is suggested to be 
the harmful property of HFCS, then my question remains... how much 
HFCS can be in the honey before it's detectible.

I've heard 5% and I've heard "miniscule" and now you've suggested 
that it's irrelevant, that it's all just fructose and sucrose 
anyway.  This MAY be true, and HFCS may not have any blame in 
obesity. It is getting to be perceived as a cause, however.

My question, and maybe I wasn't real clear, was how much HFCS is 
getting into our honey, not by purposeful adulteration but simply by feeding.

At 12:00 AM 5/13/2006, you wrote:
>It has been determined that sugar is found in honey.
>
>If organic honey is devoid of sucrose, glucose and fructose, then 
>the rest of us beekeepers are
>producing non-organic honey since ours is loaded with it.

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