Honey in the jar True or false.

[gavin]

And still no one has answered the question. What is the definition of Honey if I sell it.
I could feed my bees during a wet Spring/Summer and sell it a honey.
If i had hives in a desert could I feed them non stop and sell it as desert honey from Quatar or wherever.

As above, and ....

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0842e/i0842e10.pdf

Definition of honey according to the EU

Honey is the natural sweet substance, produced by Apis mellifera bees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to ripen and mature.

The EU definition states that honey is only honey according to the definition when it is produced by Apis mellifera honeybees.