Honey Tree Organic Honey is excellent in all of my desserts and other recipes that call for sugar. In the 1500's, sugar was imported from China, and the Chinese would only accept gold as payment from the English. Sugar was a very rare luxury, and honey was the only sweetener that most people used. I have embraced this philosophy since 1979 and always use honey instead of sugar.

I have bought this honey at least 4 times before and use it religiously, but the last batch I got was BAD. It was old honey that keeps clumping and sticking to the bottom of the bottom which is a waste and must be thrown away. Continually leaking because I have to keep it on it's head to even remotely flow. Honey used to be nice and creamy, easy to get out of bottle, now I have to open the cap and use a knife to get the honey out once I'm 3/4 of the way through the bottle because it's turned hard. Not happy with this purchase anymore.

The honey had a nice tropical taste; however, it soon crystallized after arrival. Needed to place in boiling water to melt the crystals to a consistency which could be squeezed through the spout. An annoyance which prohibits me from purchasing again.

We eat paleo, so we consume A LOT of honey. We bake with it on almost a daily basis. This honey is absolutely delicious. It doesn't taste at all processed. The texture is thick and decadent. The squeeze bottles are great too - it's very easy to get all of the honey out of the bottle, which is difficult with other brands I've used. The price is very reasonable as well.

I cancelled my subscription for this product because I'm concerned about whether the honey in the bottle is truly what is advertised.

I recently read the following report on this product by FOX 17 in West Michigan: "Research at Texas A&M University shows that most honey labels aren't telling the truth, and 75% of the honey in the U.S. is not what it says it is on the label. And this could apply to as much as 90% of the nation's honey, according to lead federal honey investigator. FOX 17 wanted to know where some of the honey that sits on your West Michigan grocery store shelves comes from, because sometimes the labels just aren't that clear, according to [Dr. Vaughn] Bryant. So, we took some samples and and sent them to Texas A&M University. Our five samples included a bottle from the company formerly known as Groeb Farms, Honey Tree's Michigan Great Lakes Raw Honey, Organic Rainforest honey, plus a Meijer brand and a Spartan brand. "Most of them were not what they claimed to be," said Bryant."

When discussing this product, the report said, "Now on to sample 3, which was labeled Organic Rainforest honey. "We don't know what it is," said Bryant. The label had the abbreviation "BR" on the back, which stands for Brazil. However, Bryant couldn't prove it came from rainforest flowers. It came back from testing as a question mark, because someone had strained all the pollen out. "We have no idea whether it's organic," said Bryant. "We have no idea whether it's from the rainforest or anything else. Bryant points out in past cases of illegal honey shipping, unscrupulous honey dealers have filtered out the pollen on purpose so illegally shipped honey can come into the country untraceable to its source. "The United States does not have any affecting labeling laws," said Bryant."

I have since switched to a local source for honey, which costs more, but I think is a better choice for my family and supports bee keepers in my community.