All You Need To Know About Honeydew Honey (Forest Honey)

Honeydew honey (forest honey) is the name used for a variety of honey that isn’t made out of flower nectar. This particular type is made from a watery secretion of small insects (aphids), that consume plant sap. The secretion, known as honeydew, in a form of tiny droplets found on trees mainly in the summer, attracts bees. They collect it, thicken and lock it in the cells of the hive – as honeydew honey. Much less frequently this honey could be made from various smaller plants or grasses which generate sap themselves but in smaller quantities.

Honeydew honey has a much darker colour to other varieties -  medium to dark amber, sometimes with brown, greenish and reddish highlights, at times nearly black. This honey usually has a thick consistency and a smooth texture. When it comes to smell and taste, the honeydew honey has more aroma if its pigment is darker. This honey is more likely to have a medium taste intensity and is delicately sweet. Different varieties have a resinous, woody, warm aroma, along with other notes. That depends on the species of insect as well as the tree the honey has been made out of. For instance, it might have cooked fruit, resin, smoke, malt, caramel or warm spices flavour notes. Often it has slight astringent notes or a hardly traceable hint of bitterness.

Health Benefits of Honeydew Honey

Honeydew Honey boasts health benefits and special properties given its distinct flavour profile and other unique attributes.

• Does wonders to the skin. Forest honey makes a perfect natural face mask. It helps to unclog pores and removes blackheads. That, combined with its antibacterial properties makes it suitable for stopping acne when utilized continuously.
• Tonic properties. Honeydew honey is a great energy booster – its natural sugars offer an instant energy boos and help to avoid the condition of hypoglycaemia. It also has great nutritional value, offering essential minerals and vitamins.
• Helps fight stress. The antioxidant properties of forest honey help to combat the negative influence of free radicals and to avoid cell damage build-up.
• Excellent soothing benefits. The thick consistency, antibacterial properties and low moisture content of this honey are perfect for soothing sore throat. You could add it to your tea after it’s cooled down (hot water will minimise the beneficial properties of honey).
• Low glycaemic index. Forest honey has a lower glycaemic index compared to flower honey. Therefore, this particular honey variety is a good option, for those searching for something sweet and healthy at the same time.

Why You Should Buy This

Sweet Honey Co’s organic honeydew honey also known as forest honey is unprocessed, raw and organic. We harvest it from the forests, fields, and meadows of  Poland. Poland is known for its still untouched nature, rolling mountains, deep forests, peppered with small streams and rivers.
This Honeydew Honey is of a light yellowish-brown colour and has a delicate, mild taste and a rich aroma of wildflowers. Our 100% raw honeydew honey is an extremely high valued variety due to the broad spectrum of tree nectars, botanicals and herbs it contains.

You can use it as a natural sweetener in cooking and baking or in various drinks like tea and coffee.