A delicious natural sweetener for your favorite dishes and a powerful superfood for a healthy daily routine.
Key Features
Intensity: mild flavor.
Texture: crystallised.
Colour: from pale yellow to almost white.
What Does it Taste Like?
Raw Rapeseed Honey has a soothingly mild taste and a slight but pleasant peppery aftertaste. It's the favourite honey of many people due to its moderate sweetness and unique flavour profile.
Honey Facts & Benefits
Rapeseed Honey is a fine tasting honey made by bees that feed on rapeseed fields in spring. Rapeseed is an oil-producing plant with vibrant yellow flowers that bees absolutely love. This honey is also known as oilseed honey or canola honey.
Rapeseed Honey crystallises fairly quickly, almost within weeks of hive extraction. This is due to the high glucose concentration. Honey varieties with high glucose to fructose ratio tend to set faster. Besides crystallisation it is common to notice frosting. It usually looks like a small white streak or crescent that gradually spreads on the shoulder of the jar. Frosting and crystallisation are natural features of honey, and they don't impact the taste or the quality.
Rapeseed Honey has many different health properties. It contains significant amounts of vitamin E and A, which are beneficial for the health of skin. Rapeseed Honey can be used also externally to treat burns and minor wounds since it has rejuvenating and healing properties. This honey also contains elements important for bone development. It is known also as a natural remedy, which helps to maintain the health of eyes, kidney and liver.
Common Uses
Raw Rapeseed Honey is great for everyday use. Our customers love it for its slightly sweet flavour, which does sweeten foods without modifying their natural taste. Raw Rapeseed Honey goes well with toast, porridge, yoghourt, cereals, and even salad dressings. It is an excellent natural sweetener for tea, coffee, smoothies and fruity infusions. Rapeseed Honey is also a popular choice to sweeten pancakes, desserts, and baked goods.
Notes & Tips:
- Storage: honey should be stored away from direct sunlight in a dry place at room temperature or below. Always ensure the lid is secured tightly.
- Crystallisation: raw honey crystallizes over time, and it is a natural process. Honey thickens and changes its state - it hardens and becomes grainy. Different types of honey crystallize differently. Some types of honey become very grainy and form larger crystals. Changes in color and structure (crystallization) are signs of raw, unpasteurized, and unprocessed honey.
- Frosting: another sign of raw and unprocessed honey is frosting. It usually looks like a small white streak or crescent that gradually spreads on the shoulder of the jar. These white areas are tiny air bubbles that get trapped between honey and the side or shoulder of the jar. Frosting and crystallization are natural features of honey, and they don't impact the taste or the quality.
- Consistency: if you prefer softer, more liquid honey, you can gently warm it by putting the jar in hot water. Warming will liquefy the crystallized honey. Avoid exposing honey to temperatures over 45°C, because higher temperatures may destroy part of the natural nutrients. Please make sure the jar is closed correctly to ensure no water contaminates the honey.
- Colour changes: please know that raw honey can vary in colour and taste from batch to batch - honey changes with the season and climate and depending on what the bees feed on.
- Packaging: our honey is available in recyclable glass and plastic jars of various sizes. The plastic jars are made of BPA-free high-quality shatterproof plastic.
- Safety Information: honey is inappropriate for children under the age of one year.
- Product photos and videos are representative. Honey colour and texture may vary depending on the season and level of crystallisation.
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FAQs
How does Rapeseed Honey differ from other types of honey?
Rapeseed Honey crystallises fairly quickly, almost within weeks of hive extraction. This is due to the high glucose concentration.
What are the health benefits of Rapeseed Honey?
Rapeseed Honey is rich in vitamin E and A, beneficial for skin health. It can be used externally to treat burns and wounds. Additionally, it contains elements important for bone development and is known as a natural remedy for maintaining the health of eyes, kidneys, and liver.
What does Rapeseed Honey taste like?
Raw Rapeseed Honey has a soothingly mild taste and a slight but pleasant peppery aftertaste. It's the favourite honey of many people due to its moderate sweetness and unique flavour profile.