Stiftung Warentest: honey often deficient! Test winner particularly cheap

• On the roll or in tea: honey is a hit with the Germans.
• Stiftung Warentest examined 36 types of honey and came to an unsatisfactory result.
• The testers rated every fourth honey “poor”.

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Berlin – golden and sweet: honey makes breakfast perfect for many Germans. And in tea it is the perfect companion for the dark season and during a cold. Every German consumes over a kilo of liquid gold a year. But loud Stiftung Warentest the quality is not always right, as RUHR24 * reports.

Stiftung Warentest: 36 types of honey tested

Regardless of whether Rewe. Aldi or Lidl – honey is available in a wide variety of designs in every supermarket. But it is difficult for consumers to see which one honey is really good. For that Stiftung Warentest take a closer look at some varieties.

The testers have 36 varieties honey examined in different price ranges. Besides discounterware from Aldi or Lidl also more expensive branded honey from langnese or Dreyer represented. Different varieties were also examined: acacia honey, rapeseed honey, forest honey and wildflower honey.

Result of Stiftung Warentest: Every fourth honey is “deficient”

The test result was sobering: none of the tested honeys was able to clear the grade “very good”. Every fourth honey is even “inadequate”, including a striking number of acacia and wildflower honeys.

They could not meet the requirements for variety honey and are noisy Stiftung Warentest thus failed. For example, acacia honey should taste mild and slightly flowery and not artificial and perfumed.

Only every fourth honey comes from Germany – and often does not do well

Another problem with that honey in our supermarkets: only one in four honey also comes from Germany. And the Germans honeys, which Stiftung Warentest examined, did not do very well. Only one in six Germans honeys is rated “good”.

Much of the honey is imported from China. The People’s Republic has grown to become the most important supplier of honey to the EU and the largest honey producer in the world. Tests by the “EU Joint Research Center” showed that every fifth honey does not meet the standards of the European Union.

Stiftung Warentest finds glyphosate and carcinogenic substances in honey

But not just the origin of the honey is significant, the results of the honey-Tests also reflect our agricultural practices. Because even if the packaging makes us believe that honey is always natural and healthy: Unfortunately this is not the case.

Because while bees are looking for pollen, they also collect unwanted substances. In every third honey the testers have slight traces of the controversial crop protection product glyphosate demonstrated. Also has pollen from genetically modified plants Stiftung Warentest in ten products.

Several forest honeys were even clearly involved toxic substances contaminated: Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) are formed by some wild plants. This was punished with a point deduction. Because this substance has been proven in animal experiments carcinogenic and mutagenic,

Stiftung Warentest: Lidl and Aldi honey rated “good”

Pleasing for the customers: good honey doesn’t have to be expensive. Several cheap ones honey-Varieties that were rated “good” can be found in discounters. An extract from the honeysby Stiftung Warentest were rated “good”: