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Honey varieties

One food. Thousands of landscapes.

Honey is not one flavour. Every jar carries the plants, weather, season and bees of a place. This encyclopedia records what is actually documented about each variety — and says plainly where the evidence stops.

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Honey is a landscape in a jar.

A varietal name describes where the sugars came from, not a guaranteed recipe. Two jars of the same variety, from different valleys or different years, can taste and measure differently. We keep that variation visible instead of averaging it away.

Source

Nectar from a flower, or honeydew from insects feeding on a tree. The source category changes everything downstream.

Place and season

Climate, soil, elevation, bloom timing and harvest date all shape the honey that ends up in the jar.

Evidence

We label whether a statement is a sourced typical profile, a published measurement, or a single tested batch.

Explore by curiosity.

Explore the world's honey varieties.

Search by a name you know, or filter by the profile you want to discover. Every card says whether information is a sourced typical profile, a published measurement, or an actual tested batch.

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Illustrative screen colour — not a laboratory measurement.

From water-white to dark amber.

Honey colour is measured optically on the Pfund scale, in millimetres. Screens cannot reproduce a laboratory reading, so the swatches on this site are illustrative unless a measured value is shown.

  • Water white

    up to 8 mm Pfund

  • Extra white

    up to 17 mm Pfund

  • White

    up to 34 mm Pfund

  • Extra light amber

    up to 50 mm Pfund

  • Light amber

    up to 85 mm Pfund

  • Amber

    up to 114 mm Pfund

  • Dark amber

    up to 150 mm Pfund

Colour classes follow the USDA extracted honey grades. Illustrative screen colour — not a laboratory measurement.

How we label evidence.

Reference Profile
An authoritative, multi-sample characterisation exists for the scope shown on this page.
Supported Profile
One or more relevant peer-reviewed regional studies support this profile.
Emerging Profile
Published evidence exists but is limited and may not represent the variety broadly.
Identity Only
The name, source category and geography are supported, but a full sensory or composition profile has not been imported yet.

Evidence is claim-specific. A well-supported botanical identity does not validate every sensory descriptor or composition range on a page.

Built from evidence, with the variation intact.

This first release publishes verified identity records — name, source category, botanical source and documented production countries — for 0 varieties. Sensory and composition values are imported study by study, with the citation first.

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