Cotton honey

Color

Light: lighter than the orange and thyme honeys in a Greek study. [1]

Aroma

Not documented

Flavor

Not documented

Crystallization

Fast. Crystallizes rapidly. [1]

• Cotton

  Gossypium hirsutum

  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

United States, Greece, Türkiye, India

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

Alex Heyman published the photo of Gossypium hirsutum on iNaturalist under CC0 1.0: iNaturalist observation 59330270 (opens in a new tab).

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

One peer-reviewed study of Greek cotton honeys gives the color and the crystallization. No study that we read gives the aroma or the flavor yet.

1. [1]

   Physicochemical and Rheological Characteristics of Monofloral Honeys—Kinetics of Creaming–Crystallization

   Polatidou, K., Nouska, C., Tananaki, C., Biliaderis, C., Lazaridou, A.

   Foods, 2025

   Greek monofloral thyme, cotton, and heather honeys followed through a creaming trial.

   DOI: 10.3390/foods14101835 (opens in a new tab) · Open the source (opens in a new tab)

• 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

We reviewed this record on Oct 14, 2026.