Honey varieties

Meadowfoam honey

Bees make this honey from the nectar of meadowfoam, a seed-oil crop of the Pacific Northwest.

Meadowfoam honey

Color not documented

The honey

Blossom (nectar)Botanical variety

Meadowfoam
Limnanthes alba
primary source · nectar
Published honey references and standards name this source. In other regions, the honey can come from more or different species.

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

Steve Woodward published the photo of Limnanthes alba on iNaturalist under CC0 1.0: iNaturalist observation 282492805 (opens in a new tab).

Identity Only

Sources support the name, the source, and the countries. No study that we read gives the color, aroma, flavor, or crystallization yet.

We found only seller descriptions of meadowfoam honey. The catalog does not use seller text.

We have not linked a study to this variety yet.

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.