We make no health claims. Here is exactly why.

Thymelia sells food, and in Great Britain food may only carry nutrition and health claims that appear on the GB register. For bee products — honey, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly — that register holds essentially nothing. So we claim nothing: not in our copy, not in our headings, not in our email, not by implication. This page is our standing statement of that position, published where every customer can find it.

What the GB register is

Under retained Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, every health claim used on food sold in Great Britain must be specifically authorised and listed on the GB nutrition and health claims register, maintained by the UK government. If a claim is not on the register, it cannot be made — and vaguer wording does not escape the rule: general claims like “good for you” are only permitted alongside an authorised specific claim, which bee products do not have.

You can check the register yourself — search “GB nutrition and health claims register” on gov.uk — and you should. Any seller of bee products making confident promises about your body is either listing claims that are not there, or hoping you will not look.

What we publish instead

• Composition — what is actually in each product, in real percentages, on the label and the batch page.
• Process — how it was made: extraction temperatures, what was and was not done, evidenced by per-batch testing.
• Provenance — named apiaries, real coordinates, harvest dates. See how we buy.
• Evidence status — per-product pages, in the writing, setting out neutrally what research exists and what is actually established, with no conclusions about effects. History is told as history: what ancient writers recorded, never dressed up as proof.
• Safety — the one place candour matters most: bee-product allergy is real and occasionally serious, and honey is not suitable for infants under 12 months. A full page on who should avoid these products is in the writing.

Why bother saying this?

Because the alternative is the industry default: imply everything, claim nothing formally, and let the customer join the dots. We think the jar is enough. If knowing precisely what you are buying — tested, dated, and traced to a hillside — is what you want from a honey house, you are in the right place.