What is honey

Honey is the sweet substance, blonde color, produced by honey bees from nectar or honeydew they store in the hive and which serves food throughout the year.

In particular, they store it in the hive to eat it later, during periods of adverse weather.

It is also used by other animal species, including humans, which organizes its production with bee wrongly called “domestic”, housed in artificial hives.

Honey of Reunion island

The Reunion this volcanic massif subject to tropical climate, with huge tracts of sugar cane, offers a range of honey as rich as its landscape.

Parallel to the honey-like flowers all variables in color, aroma and flavor, three honey predominate.

Honey false pepper or pink pepper honey.

The pepper tree grows wild on the island of Reunion and provides not only pink peppercorns, commonly known as pink pepper, but also an abundant honey, amber colored, aromatic and fruity, slightly spicy, which slowly crystallizes .

Honey to discover exotic his notes for sweet and flowery.
The nectar of its flowers in abundance gives an excellent honey amber aroma supported and peppery flavor characteristic. It crystallizes slowly.

The honey of tan rouge

Weinmannia tinctorra produces a honey taste.
It has hints of green and why it is sometimes marketed under the name of honey green.

In winter, after the harvest of sugar cane, severed stems secrete a few drops of sweet sap particular on which the bees rush.
This honey, then said “honey cane,” tastes like caramel. Dark, it remains liquid for a long time.

The ” tan rouge ” is the local name of a species of tree native to the island Reunion, Weinmannia tinctorra, which grows in the rainforests and cool between 1000 and 2000 meters and whose flowers are the source of the famous “green honey”, so called because it offers a slight emerald shades.
The color is amber and has a special flavor.

The honey of litchi

The consumer is best known fruit called lichee or lychee, juicy and translucent as a rough bark dark pink.

The tree that is native to China, is now well established at the Reunion and flowers help to produce a clear and fragrant honey, whose delicate flavor of rose is similar to that of the fruit.

Lychee, Litchi sinensis, in the fall gives a clearer honey, very fragrant, the taste of pink.
It crystallizes quickly, but it is particularly fine granulation.

Enjoy the Honey.