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1. M. Wyze Says:
   July 3rd, 2010 at 7:54 am

   This is a wonderful price for Tulepo honey, and It’s even better that this is a raw honey.
   
   There’s never any waste with this type of honey, as it simply doesn’t crystalize. It tastes
   
   great, with just a faint hint of lemon.
   Rating: 5 / 5

2. D.R. Bennett Says:
   July 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am

   Tupelo honey is wonderful, but hard to find, and very expensive. Locating it at amazon.com was a real stroke of luck. The bottles are large, you get three of them, and you can group the honey with other products for free shipping. That’s the ideal way to enjoy the great taste of tupelo honey. I was told years ago by a health professional to use tupelo because of the way the body digests it, making it usable even by diabetics, who must control their sugar intake. So happy that amazon.com now carries Cal’s Honey, a brand I had known for years.
   Rating: 5 / 5

3. J. K. Bayler Says:
   July 3rd, 2010 at 1:33 pm

   We found this honey to be well worth the price. It is thick without being bulky, smooth in texture, and the flavor is all a good honey should be; not syurpy sweet. It does well in my favorite recipes.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. Ex-cataloger Says:
   July 3rd, 2010 at 1:38 pm

   Whatever happened to Cal’s Tupelo Honey? I bought it for years in the natural food stores locally. None of them carry it anymore. Trying to locate the company, I spent a futile hour searching the Internet.

   The label on my old jar says “Cairo, GA 39828″. Not to be found anywhere on Google, white pages or yellow. After checking Amazon, I see that the label on the 22 oz. bottles says “Calvary, GA 31729″. Same non-results on Google. The local retailer suggests that they may have been bought out. It troubles me that they are unfindable. What troubles me even more, however, is that the bottom half-inch of my current (and last) jar has crystallized. Tupelo honey should never crystallize, so my assumption is that it’s being cut with some other, probably cheaper, kind of honey.

   If you’re looking for tupelo honey, try [...], a website operated by The National Honey Board. It lists apiaries in every state which produce many varieties of honey, including tupelo, often with links to those websites, and has useful information in addition. Cal’s Honey isn’t to be found. Too bad. It was a favorite of mine.
   Rating: 1 / 5

5. A Research It Maven Says:
   July 3rd, 2010 at 3:03 pm

   Tupelo honey is the finest honey on the market, and Cal’s Honey, Tupelo, 22-Ounce Squeeze Bottle (Pack of 3) is value priced! Tupelo honey does not get grainy or turn solid over time, and it is digested differently than other sugars so it doesn’t cause sugar highs and lows – making it a good choice even for diabetics. This is thin, free-flowing honey, so we store it in the refrigerator to make it pour thicker. The flat top on the container makes it easy to store upside down for fast dispensing! Cal’s Tupelo Honey is produced in Georgia, USA.

   More facts: Tupelos are valued as honey plants in the southeastern United States, particularly in the Gulf Coast region. They produce a very light, mild-tasting honey. In northern Florida, beekeepers keep beehives along the river swamps on platforms or floats during tupelo bloom to produce certified tupelo honey, which commands a high price on the market because of its flavor. Monofloral honey made from the nectar of the Ogeechee Tupelo has such a high ratio of fructose to glucose that it does not crystallize.

   The Apalachicola River in the Florida Panhandle is the center for tupelo honey. The honey is produced wherever tupelo trees (three species) bloom in southeastern USA, but the purest and most expensive version (which is certified by pollen analysis) is produced in this Florida valley.
   Rating: 5 / 5

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