What's the Buzz?

We all know that the benefits of raw honey are many and varied. Raw honey retains all of it's original vitamins, minerals and enzymes. It's great for allergies! It's tasty and delicious, unrefined, and closer to nature.

So why is it that the majority of the honey found at your local supermarket is NOT raw honey?

Because raw honey will crystallize, and pasteurized honey, which has been heated, takes a lot longer to do so. 

It is unfortunate that once the honey has been heated, it's nutritional benefits and fresh taste have been all but destroyed. 

Supermarkets buy in large volume in order to get the best price. Subsequently, they often have inventory that sits in a warehouse. 

Now, if you were a supermarket chain, and you had honey sitting in a warehouse for months, and you went to ship it and now it had crystallized, how salable do you think it would be? It's still good, but has lost much of it's shelf appeal. 

Therefore, processed, heated honey is more attractive to them, because no matter how it is stored it will keep liquid over a longer period of time. 

Enter, Creamed Honey, which many people confuse with Raw Honey. Creamed Honey has been pasteurized and "seeded" with the desired crystal size in order to create small, fine crystals that are uniform in size and the end product is nice and creamy. Here the crystallization process has been partially controlled in order to create a cosmetically attractive end product. It's thick, spreads easily and doesn't drip...and because those crystals are nice and small it feels smooth on the tongue.  

This process...and it is a "process" done to the honey... nips the crystallization objection in the bud by making crystallized honey what the customer expects, and eliminates the problem of storage, etc. 

Our raw honey is liquid honey. It is fresh and sent to you way before it crystallizes. It has not been heated or processed in any way.

And in the distant future, when your raw honey begins to crystallize....just place the container in a pot of hot water, give it a stir, and your honey will liquify once again!