Black Forest Raw Honeydew Honey

8 oz / Glass bottle

Our Black Forest Honey are not blossom/flower or nectar honey but a HONEYDEW HONEY -

secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant-sucking insects on plants.

The antioxidant and antibacterial properties of honeydew honey are higher than those of most blossom honeys.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is your honey cultured?

Answer -No

Our indigenous bee hunters need to walk 4 to 6 hours to locate the hives.

Cultured honey is produced by stingless bees or Apis millefera that lived inside the wooden box . Beeskeepers feed the bees with white sugar mixture in water to produce honey. They use Antibiotics, pesticides, acaricides,repellents and should be analyzed regularly to avoid contamination in cultured honey.

Our Raw Black Forest Honey is naturally produced by Apis Dorsata Breviligula, a giant bee in Asia. They live in the forest free from any harmful chemicals

PASSED the Lead analysis done in Intertek Laboratory

Why the color of your honey is black ?

Our honey is not blossom or nectar honey based on the reducing sugar that was analyzed in QSI Laboratory in Germany . We are the only honey from the Philippines that was analyzed using the latest technology in Europe.

Our Black Honey is from

the phloem sap of plants contains very high concentrations of sugars, usually the disaccharide sucrose or oligosaccharides of the raffinose family.

Phloem-feeding insects ingest very large amounts of sugars relative to other essential nutrients, and up to 90% of the ingested sugar may be egested and this sugar-rich material is honeydew.

The honeydew, however, unlike nectar honey ( Manuka New Zealand ), is not produced directly from flowers, but from insects that absorb sap from plants to live and multiply, and secrete a product still rich in nutrients, especially sugars called honeydew.

Honeydew droplets stick to leaves, branches, barks of trees and so on; the bees find it, collect it and, through their work, produce honey.

The taste is less sweet and the color is darker than nectar honey and remains liquid for a long time.

Based on the reducing sugars analysis of QSI Germany it is also a Forest Honey or Honeydew Honey too like the Black Honey.

Mannose: a marker for adulteration with syrup or resin

treatment

Mannose is a type of sugar that is related to Glucose.

One particular marker for sugar adulteration in blossom honey is mannose. All measured natural blossom honeys showed no indication of

mannose. It was found out that mannose finds its way into blossom honey either through adulteration with high end syrups like High Fructose Corn Syrup or through

treatment with ion exchange resins as part of purifying processes.

Mannose does not naturally

appear in blossom honey but can be found in honeydew honeys depending on their geographical and botanical origin. If a blossom

honey contains mannose it is considered adulterated.

Our Black Forest Honey are both NEGATIVE for Mannose.

Honeydew honey usually have higher values of pH, electrical conductivity, net absorbance, ashes percentage, higher content of disaccharides, trisaccharides, and lower level of monosaccharides, besides darker color and peculiar sensory features compared to blossom honeys.

Mineral levels and antioxidant properties have a positive correlation. This means that darker honey — those with more minerals — are more antioxidant than lighter-colored honey.

We want our customers to invest in their health and have a healthier future so we want them to buy the health benefits of our Raw Black Honey .