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Juanse asked

"Legally is honey from animal origin (like milk)? or it is considered
originating from a plant (like fruit)?"

I am no lawyer either, but can see the difference. Plants do not produce 
honey....they produce nectar. Bees use the nectar to produce honey.

Definitions that may help your dilemma.

Definition of honey according to Codex Alimentarius
Honey is the natural sweet substance, produced by honeybees from the nectar 
of plants or from secretions of living parts of
plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of 
plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with
specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in 
honeycombs to ripen and mature.

Definition of honey according to the EU
Honey is the natural sweet substance, produced by Apis mellifera bees from 
the nectar of plants or from secretions of
living parts of plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living 
parts of plants, which the bees collect,
transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, 
dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to
ripen and mature.
The EU definition states that honey is only honey according to the 
definition when it is produced by  Apis mellifera
honeybees.

PeterD
in Western Australia, wondering why life is not so simple anymore. 

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