How Much Do You Know About Bee’s and Celiac?

Bees are great and honey is sweet.  It helps to build up an immune system and is great for baking and cooking and is absolutely fabulous for adding to wounds as a healing and antibacterial agent.

BUT WHAT ABOUT FOR CELIAC’S!?!

When Bees collect Pollen they travel from 7-12 miles from their hives to collect pollens.  These wonderful and gorgeous little creatures do not have cameras on them and therefore we do not know all of the Pollens that they are collecting and incorporating into their Honey.    When a honey is named something like Sage or Mountain or Orange honey it is because the bee keeper has the bee’s hives in an area where the predominant availability is for a certain type of pollen.  Again do not be fooled they do not have cameras on them and there is no way to control where the bee collects pollen from.

There is wild and farmer grown wheat, barley and Rye all over the place.  Especially in certain states where they grow, lots of hay and grains.  A bee can collect from anywhere in its radius of collection.  Therefore we cannot control if a bee is actually collecting pollen from grains a celiac is not supposed to ingest.

I used to sell honey.  I would go to markets and street fairs and sell to the general public.  This is how I have met so many people with Celiac and other food allergies.  This is also how I figured this out and then did a little reading research and studied bees and honey. 

As wonderful as bees are and as fabulous as their honey is I noticed that the more I ate at my events while explaining how great the honey and its healing properties were, the cruddier I felt.  Once I threw it out I felt sooooo much better.  So I began to do surveys on people with allergies.  Had people try the theory and I can say that 46 out of 52 people with the Celiac or Gluten allergy that I had join in felt like crud too until removing the honey from their diet.

So just another tid-bit on what not to eat from experience only!  But if you eat honey and you still don’t feel great, try taking it out of your diet for a few weeks and see whathappens.