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Honey varieties

Coffee blossom honey

Bees make this honey from the nectar of coffee flowers during the short bloom on coffee farms.

  • Photo of Coffea arabica from an iNaturalist observation.Coffeenectar

Extra light amber to amber

Coffee blossom honey

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The honey

Color

Extra light amber to amber

Measured in pollen-checked coffee honeys from Minas Gerais, Brazil. [1]

Illustrative screen color. A screen cannot show a laboratory color.

Aroma
Not documented
Flavor
Not documented
Crystallization
Not documented

Where it comes from

Blossom (nectar)Botanical variety

  • Coffee

    Coffea arabica

    primary source · nectar

    Published honey references and standards name this source. In other regions, the honey can come from more or different species.

Documented in
Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia

The catalog names these countries. Honey of this type can come from other regions too.

Damien Wallace published the photo of Coffea arabica on iNaturalist under CC0 1.0: iNaturalist observation 267257197.

Evidence

Emerging Profile

Published evidence exists but is limited, for example a government or trade-board description or one small study.

One peer-reviewed study of pollen-checked Brazilian coffee honeys gives the color. No study that we read gives the aroma, the flavor, or the crystallization yet.

Studies

  1. From Blossom to Bottle: Investigating the Distinctive Qualities of Coffee Honey in Southern Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Oliveira, P.G.D., Gardoni, L.C.P., Scoaris, D.O., Santana, R.M., Martins, J.R., Calaça, P.S.S.T., Brito, J.C.M.

    Ensaios e Ciência, 2024

    Monofloral coffee honeys (63 to 94 percent coffee pollen) from southern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

    DOI: 10.17921/1415-6938.2024v28n3p289-297 · Open the source

References

  • Main European unifloral honeys: descriptive sheets — International Honey Commission
  • Standard for Honey CXS 12-1981 — FAO / WHO Codex Alimentarius
  • Council Directive 2001/110/EC relating to honey — European Union
  • Criteria for identifying monofloral and multifloral manuka honey — New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries
  • United States Standards for Grades of Extracted Honey — United States Department of Agriculture
  • Honey for nutrition and health: a review — Journal of the American College of Nutrition

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