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Default Reviving crystallized maple syrup?

On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:48:46 -0500, Terry Coombs >
wrote:

>On 11/3/2018 8:05 PM, graham wrote:
>> On 2018-11-03 4:57 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:


>>> **Please tell me you did NOT put your honey in the microwave ... that
>>> will kill all the beneficial properties of the honey .

>>
>> Old wive's tale!

>
> * OK , it's an old wives tale and we beekeepers know nothing about it
>.* You go right ahead and nuke your honey . Mine will never see temps
>above about a hundred degrees - the highest temp usually seen inside a
>hive . Oh wait , what you've got is probably not even real honey , but
>flavored corn syrup . Nuke away !



Most honey sold in the US is pasteurized, anyway. And filtered.

Besides, very few eat enough honey to make any nutritional difference
in diet, even if the enzymes, bee pollen, etc are still there.