The second Honey Fair (Feria de la Miel) runs over three days this weekend along the charming Andador 20 de Noviembre pedestrian walkway in the Zapopan city center.
Organized by the Asociación Ganadera Local de Apicultores de Guadalajara (Guadalajara Beekeepers Association), one of the fair’s main aims is to promote authentic, 100-percent natural honey.
At a press conference this week, Association President Alfonso Díaz explained that 60 percent of honey sold in Jalisco is “adulterated,” meaning it has been mixed with some other substance, usually a similar, but cheaper, sweetener like corn syrup or sugar. He berated the National Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco), which he said last carried out an operation to identify the “adulterers” in 2017, a lapse that has permitted this illegal business to proliferate.
Díaz said adulterated honey is much cheaper to produce, and usually sells for two-thirds less than the cost of the authentic product. (To check whether honey is authentic, add a few drops of honey into vinegar water; if the mixture starts to foam, then the honey is fake.)
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