{"id":200849,"date":"2024-12-06T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/what-can-bees-tell-us-about-nearby-pollution-the-answer-lies-in-their-honey-a-new-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:43:13","slug":"what-can-bees-tell-us-about-nearby-pollution-the-answer-lies-in-their-honey-a-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/what-can-bees-tell-us-about-nearby-pollution-the-answer-lies-in-their-honey-a-new-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"What can bees tell us about nearby pollution? The answer lies in their honey, a new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-can-bees-tell-us-about-nearby-pollution-the-answer-lies-in-their-honey-a-new-study-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside every jar of honey is a taste of the local environment, its sticky sweet flavor enhanced by whichever nearby flowers bees have decided to sample. But a new study from Tulane University has found that honey can also offer a glimpse of nearby pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0269749124019389?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\">published in <i>Environmental Pollution<\/i><\/a>, tested 260 honey samples from 48 states for traces of six toxic metals: arsenic, lead, cadmium, nickel, chromium and cobalt. None of the honeys showed unsafe levels of toxic metals\u2014based on a serving size of one tablespoon per day\u2014and concentrations in the United States were lower than global averages.<\/p>\n<p>However, researchers found <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/regional+differences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">regional differences<\/a> in toxic metal distribution: the highest arsenic levels were found in honeys from a cluster of states in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Nevada); the Southeast tested highest for cobalt levels, including Louisiana and Mississippi; and two of the three highest lead levels were found in the Carolinas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside every jar of honey is a taste of the local environment, its sticky sweet flavor enhanced by whichever nearby flowers bees have decided to sample. But a new study from Tulane University has found that honey can also offer a glimpse of nearby pollution. The study, published in Environmental Pollution, tested 260 honey samples [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}