Raw Honey

Raw honey is not just good for your health but it is delicious in taste! The raw honey we feature on this website is unheated, hence the term “raw honey”. It’s creamy and thick and contains all the natural ingredients your body looks for in a perfect food. Raw honey contains the enzymes the human body needs for proper digestion. Our honey is not filtered either. Dr. Jordan Rubin, author of The Maker’s Diet, notes a strong relationship between brain function and both fats and sugars. Raw honey provides an excellent source for natural sugars. Listen to what he says in his book, “The brain is made mostly of fat (which butter provides) and it runs on glucose (of which honey is an excellent source). Always look for high quality honey produced locally and sold in it’s raw and unheated form—this preserves it’s rich storehouse of naturally occurring enzymes and bee pollen.”Nourishing Traditions author Sally Fallon notes that …”most fruits and vegetables contain few enzymes(needed for digestion); exceptional plant foods noted for high enzyme content include extra virgin olive oil and other unrefined oils, raw honey, grapes, figs and many tropical fruits…“Raw honey: Honey that has not been heated over 117 degrees is loaded with amylases, enzymes that digest carbohydrates, as well as all the nutrients found in plant pollens. This makes it an ideal sweetener for porridge and toast as the amylases in raw honey help digest grains. Nourishing Traditions pp 536. Raw honey, unprocessed, contains bee pollen. This fact means that within raw honey are over 22 amino acids, over 5000 enzymes, and a host of vitamins and minerals. According to Mike and Stuart McInnes, authors of The Hibernation Diet, Raw honey, taken prior to sleep and processed by the liver provides the exact metering of glucose and fructose the body needs to facilitate rest while providing the brain the food it requires during the sleep cycle to awaken alert. Use raw honey as the natural health oriented alternative to processed sugars and high fructose corn syrup, and as a dietary supplement. Do not give raw honey to infants however, their bodies do not yet have sufficient stomach acid to deactivate bacteria spores.

Piru Canyon raw honey featured on this page is winner of the Blue Ribbon Award for quality and taste from the Los Angeles and Ventura County Fairs! Enjoy it to good health!

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