By eoin@realmadhoney.com Mad Honey Batch Variability: Why It Changes
Two jars from the same hillside in the same season can differ several-fold in grayanotoxin content. This piece walks through the reasons.
What this page covers
This is a stub. The body is written against sources before publication; the structural fields below already drive the article furniture.
What the evidence supports
Where the evidence is thin we say so in the sentence rather than in a footnote.
Why this page publishes no dose
We publish no dosing figures
You will not find a spoon count, a weight, a volume or a "start with this much" anywhere on this site, and that is a deliberate editorial rule rather than an oversight.
Grayanotoxin content varies between batches by more than an order of magnitude, so any figure we printed would be wrong for most jars and dangerous for some. A figure that is wrong in the direction of "more" is the exact failure mode that fills the case reports.
There is no established safe amount. Published poisoning cases involve small quantities, and the only people who should be advising you about your own body are clinicians who can see your history.
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