I bought some honey and it says "irradiated" on it?!
Answers: What does this mean and it is bad?
it means that they used a low dose of radiation to kill the bacteria and other bio contaminates. it is a great preservation technique
It got nuked but its safe to eat cause germs are dead
A lot of Chinese honey was contanimated so it had to be irradiated to make it safe to eat. See Wikipedia
it's not bad unless you are into conspiracy theories. irradiation means that they use radiation (not atomic radiation. harmless radiation) to kill all the stuff in different foods that spoil the foods or things that can make you sick.
This means that your honey has been put through ionizing radiation process (irradiation) in order to kill bacteria, insects, or viruses that may have been present. The process seems to be safe although it may decrease nutrients that are present in the food being irradiated.
The honey you purchased may have been manufactured for the use of wound care. Honey, especially that from the Manuka tree, carry antibacterial properties. Honey also starts a glucose enzyme reaction that creates hydrogen peroxide and slowly releases it into the skin when honey is put onto an open wound.
It has received a low level dose of radiation. Its safe to eat, but you may 'glow in the dark' afterwards.
It was zapped with either ionisation radiation or UV radiation, both of these have enough power to destroy the cell lining of germs and bacteria and make it sterilised.
It means what it says.. exposed to low level radiation to kill bacteria and other potential contaminants. Can also be used as "medical grade" honey for wound care
No, it just made the honey safer to eat if anything. Honey, although it doesn't goes off, can carry botulism, so irraditation kills the bacteria.
That is very ODD. Irradiation is for kill Bacteria in foods. Honey is 100% Bacteria Free naturally!!!!
I never buy anything but RAW HONEY. Anything done to it kills it's Natural Healing Benefits. It is also best for your health to buy LOCAL Honeys.
In Natural Health circles Irradiation is considered bad. I do not doubt there will come a time when most of our food will under go this process but right now we do have choices.
Here is info on Irradiation
Food irradiation
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The Radura logo, used to show a food has been treated with radiation.Food irradiation[1] is the process of exposing food to ionizing radiation in order to destroy microorganisms, bacteria, viruses, or insects that might be present in the food. Further applications include sprout inhibition, delay of ripening, increase of juice yield, and improvement of re-hydration. Irradiation is a more general term of deliberate exposure of materials to radiation to achieve a technical goal (in this context 'ionizing radiation' is implied). As such it is also used on non-food items, such as medical hardware, plastics, tubes for gas-pipelines, hoses for floor-heating, shrink-foils for food packaging, automobile parts, wires and cables (isolation), tires, and even gemstones. Compared to the amount of food irradiated, the volume of those every-day applications is huge but not noticed by the consumer.
The genuine effect of processing food by ionizing radiation relates to damages to the DNA, the basic genetic information for life. Microorganisms can no longer proliferate and continue their malignant or pathogen activities. Spoilage causing micro-organisms cannot continue their activities. Insects do not survive or become incapable of proliferation. Plants cannot continue the natural ripening or aging process. All these effects are beneficial to the consumer and the food industry, likewise.
It should be noted that the amount of energy imparted for effective food irradiation is low compared to cooking the same; even at a typical dose of 10 kGy most food, which is (with regard to warming) physically equivalent to water, would warm by only about 2.5 °C.
The speciality of processing food by ionizing radiation is the fact, that the energy density per atomic transition is very high, it can cleave molecules and induce ionization (hence the name) which cannot be achieved by mere heating. This is the reason for new beneficial effects, however at the same time, for new concerns. The treatment of solid food by ionizing radiation can provide an effect similar to heat pasteurization of liquids, such as milk. However, the use of the term, cold pasteurization, to describe irradiated foods is controversial, because pasteurization and irradiation are fundamentally different processes, although the intended end results can in some cases be similar.
Food irradiation is currently permitted by over 40 countries and volumes are estimated to exceed 500?000 metric tons annually world wide.
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