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Default Reviving crystallized maple syrup?

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>On 2018-11-05 3:48 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
>> On 11/4/2018 9:14 AM, graham wrote:

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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> My point was that nuking (at low level) is no different to sitting the
>>> jar in hot water. Some seem to associate microwave radiation with
>>> nuclear.

>>
>> A Science isn't your strong suit is it ? Look it up if you doubt me
>> ,but microwaves ARE radiation - of a certain frequency , or wavelength .
>> So are X-rays and Gamma rays and visible light . ALL are
>> "electromagnetic radiation" . Now , about the honey . Because of the way
>> microwaves heat , that is by molecular excitation , they destroy the
>> organic and microbiological stuff in honey . We eat enough to make a
>> difference , my wife has cut way back on antihistamines and other
>> sinus/allergy medications . I never took much , now don't take any at all .
>>

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>I have been waiting for an explanation about destroying the bee enzymes
>in honey makes it less beneficial to humans. The best you have done is
>to say that nuking honey destroys the "organic and microbiological
>stuff". If that was a high school biology test question your answer
>would get a zero.



pretty skillful takedown there Dave