Avocado Honey 900g

01 · WHAT IT TASTES LIKE

Dark and forthright, with a salty note and a hint of molasses

This is an intense, unconventional honey: sweet on the attack, fruity in the middle and with a salty counterpoint that sets it apart from any pale breakfast honey. People who try it reach for the word molasses. And there is a useful difference from the other dark honey in the range, forest honey: that one has a malty, toasted-cereal base; this one does not. Here it is fruit and salt. Try it on its own the first time, then use it as a contrast: mature cheeses, plain yoghurt, dressings. Added at the end of a dish it keeps its aroma far better than if you cook it.

02 · WHY IT ARRIVES RUNNY

Slow crystallisation is its character, not carelessness

Every unpasteurised honey crystallises in the end; this one takes a long time, so receiving it liquid is the norm. Worth saying, because there is a notion going round that thick honey is good and runny honey is suspect, and it is not so: how fast a honey sets depends on its floral origin, not on its quality. Shade, fluidity and aroma intensity also vary from harvest to harvest, and that is not a fault either — it is what happens with a product from one specific bloom and one specific lot.

03 · HOW IT IS IDENTIFIED

Its marker is not pollen, it is perseitol

A detail that explains why this honey is analysed differently: avocado pollen is under-represented in the honey, so counting pollen grains is not enough to certify it. The marker used is perseitol, a sugar characteristic of the plant. That is why avocado honey is not identified by eye or by colour alone: it rests on the sensory profile and on that marker. The packer’s sheet sets a minimum colour of 80 mm on the Pfund scale for this lot, which is the reference for «very dark».

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

This is a raw honey: it is not pasteurised. It is bottled with controlled heat and filtering — just enough for it to flow and come out clean — which is not the same as pasteurising. And that is where the point above comes from: an unpasteurised honey crystallises, sooner or later. Keep the jar closed, cool, dry and away from sunlight, and always use a clean, dry spoon.

⚠ PRECAUTIONS

As with any honey, it must not be given to children under 12 months.