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["Doc Lisenby" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>]

Buckwheat honey sure as heck isn't colorless and neither is Tulip Popular. 
Tulip Popular is the most common produced honey in around Greensboro, NC and 
other places.  It isn't desired by the public as much as less colored honey 
but we used to sell it to bakeries by the ton. Commercial processors bleach 
colored honey because of public desires.  Bees don't seem to mind what they 
store and I have gathered pink honey from their robbing hummingbird feeders 
which is colored to attract those who are sucker enough to pay a high price 
for colored sugar.
I don't know for sure but I would suspect that colored raw honey contains 
more nutritive value than that amber pasteurized honey on the grocery shelf.
Cotton produces a clear colorless honey.
Moonshiners like to keep a few hives so they can use them as an excuse for 
buying a lot of sugar "to feed the bees' which is used to make lousy corn 
whiskey.
Doc Lisenby
Zone 7/8