honey
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If Your Child Swallows A Button Battery, Honey Might Help
Coin cell or “button” batteries are small, shiny, and feel tingly on the tongue. If you’re a toddler, that puts them into the category of “belongs in my mouth”. But a swallowed button battery can begin burning a hole through a kid’s oesophagus in hours, causing pain, severe injury, and sometimes complications leading to death.
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The Manuka Honey Fight Is One We Have To Have
The current row about the certification of Manuka honey, and whether it is a distinctly New Zealand product, is just the latest dispute involving Geographical Indications (GIs). These are markers that products have special qualities due to their origins in a specific region, like Champagne. There is a debate as to whether a registered GI…
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Counterfeit Foods, And How To Spot Them
That Parmesan cheese is actually wood, that honey has corn syrup and the cake is a lie. There’s no guarantee the food you’re buying at the store is what it says it is, so keep an eye out for these usual suspects if you don’t want to waste your money on fake, inferior products.
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Make This Year’s Trendiest Condiment With Two Basic Ingredients
Thanks to labels like Mike’s Hot Honey and Bees Knees Spicy Honey, the past year has seen so-called “hot honey” become the darling of the condiment world. But why pay as much as $20 for a jar when you can make your own version of the stuff using only two pantry ingredients?