Wild About Honey – ‘Red Fir’ Honey
£12.99
This Wild About Honey raw ‘Red Fir’ honey comes from the mountains of central Greece and is produced by Vaggelis, a young gifted beekeeper and entrepreneur who has been beekeeping since he was a teenager.
If there was only one honey we could use everyday for the rest of our lives, it might just be this one. This lovely dark, rich, smooth as silk honey is just unbelievably more-ish. It’s subtle, slightly herbaceous, has a luxurious mouthfeel and has a very mild sweetness. It also has powerful healing properties for internal digestion complaints as well as mouth ulcers.
Like Wild Aboout Honey’s raw ‘Vanilla Fir’ honey, raw ‘Pine’ honey and Serra da Estrela Mountain (Oak) honey from Portugal, this raw Wild About Honey Greek ‘Red Fir’ honey is a honeydew. Honeydews are made by bees foraging on the secretions of insects that live off the sap of the trees. They contain a large percentage of long chain sugar molecules called Oligosaccharides. Fructose is a shorter chain molecule which crystallizes quicker and Glucose is the smallest sugar molecule and crystallizes quickest (think raw sunflower honey), Nectar honeys are usually characterized by the presence of Glucose and Fructose in varying proportions.
These honey would make a beautiful gift to any discerning honey lover.
Honey and Crystallization Info: Crystallization is a completely natural process and occurs with all raw honey. The speed and size of the crystallization depends on variations in the balance of sugars, ambient temperature and to some extent water content. If your honey is set hard, you can loosen it up by placing it in a pan of hand hot water, (and repeat as necessary) using a spoon placed in hot water first and of course storing it in a sunny/warm place in the house.
Country of origin: Greece.
Available in 480g.