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Heather honey is a natural product that honeybees eleborate in their stomachs with the nectar of heather flowers. It is considered one of the most beneficial honeys from Europe!
A finest selection of regional heather honeys harvested across Spain.
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Summary: Heather honey is a dark honey with a powerful and delicious taste. Moreover, it is rich in minerals and other compunds that are very healthy. Furthermore, all our heather honeys come from local beekeepers that follow sustainable and respectful beekeeping practices. Also, we offer for sale this selection of organic and no organic heather honeys in our shop in Las Rozas de Madrid.
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Firstly, we show you the most important characteristics of this honey:
Heather honey has a naturally dark amber color. However, when it crystallizes it takes on a much more brown colour, with noticeable reddish hues, reflecting its unique composition and floral origin.
Photo 1: Colour range of raw heather honey.
Furthermore, raw heather honey stands out for its intense and persistent aroma, accompanied by a rich, slightly smoky flavor. Likewise, on the palate, it is long-lasting, with subtle bitter notes that evoke the essence of autumnal deciduous forests, humus, and wild mushrooms. Its complex profile may also reveal salty nuances and pronounced bitter components, which vary depending on the floral origin and purity.
When oak honeydew is present alongside heather nectar, the honey tends to be darker, with a less sweet aroma and more pronounced salty and malty notes. However, these variations depend on the specific heather species and the proportion of nectar to honeydew.
Furthermore, You can also watch a video about heather plants here.
Video 1: Heather flowering
In conclusion, when this honey contains a higher proportion of blackberry nectar, it tends to have more acidic notes and higher moisture content. In addition, this composition may lead to crystallization with separation of solid and liquid phases.
In summary, heather honey is generally slow to crystallize, although its behavior can vary depending on floral contributions and environmental factors.
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Heather is a shrub that breeds on plains, slopes, hills, rocky mountain areas. Moreover, it flowers in summer, and it can extend its flowering at the end of summer in areas of lower altitude. As a result, the heather honey harvest usually begins in mid to late summer.
Moreover, this plant is widely distributed across the plains, hills, and slopes of the Iberian Peninsula, flourishing in lime-free soils up to 2,600 meters above sea level..
In addition, the harvest of Heather honey is variable. Because its flowering is often early and irregular. Furthermore, it is also very sensitive to long periods of drought and rain, so we can find years without this kind of honey.
Video 2: Our heather honeys from Apicola Moreno
Furthermore, heather honey will contain mostly heather pollen, Erica Sp in its scientific name. However, we can also find some fabaceae, crsitaceae, blackberry and asteraceae pollen.
Most importantly, all our beekeepers care deeply for their bees and practice sustainable, respectful beekeeping. Beyond producing exceptional honey, their work plays a vital role in supporting rural development and preserving natural ecosystems.
Also, we offer both conventional and certified organic heather honey. For the organic variety, we ensure full authenticity by thoroughly verifying every certification through strict control processes.
Heather honey is a natural product renowned for its many health benefits. These benefits stem from its high concentration of natural sugars and valuable nutritional compounds, derived from heather nectar and pollen.
According to numerous studies and expert opinions, this honey may support:
In summary, honey has been used for millennia as a natural aid for various health purposes. However, it is important to remember that honey is not a medicine.
Honey is a very calorific product. Therefore, we recommend a moderate consumption for people seeking to lose weight. Likewise, if you suffer from diabetes, we recommend a advise of your doctor.
Heather honey is a delicately sweet, highly aromatic honey—perfect for spreading on toast and biscuits. It also adds a delicious, natural flavor to coffee and tea, enhancing your everyday moments with its unique taste.
Likewise, it is great on toasts, biscuits, coffee and tea.
Finally, thanks to its unique texture and consistency, top chefs recommend heather honey to add a special touch to ice creams and sponge cakes. It’s also perfect for pairing with citrus fruits, cheeses, and fish dishes. Moreover, its complex flavor beautifully complements spicy and hot recipes, making it a versatile ingredient in any kitchen.
Raw heather honey can take a long time to crystallize, because this honey has a lower glucose content and it is rich in minerals, two factors that delay crystallization. However, its crystallization can be influenced by the content of other nectars and myelates.
We define useful life as recommended consumption. As a result, this honey may eventually lose some of its qualities and contain more than 40 mg/kg of MHF.
Its useful life is 2 years from the moment of packaging.
Moreover, this honey is adequate for all. But we recommen not to feeding honey children under two years old, only with medical advise.
Our heather honey is produced bylocal spanish beekeepers, who are the followings:
Beekeeper |
Location |
Characteristics |
| Antonio Simón | Madrid | Organic |
| Apícola Moreno | Guadalajara | No organic |
| Como una Reina | Valencia | No organic |
| Rancho Cortesano | Cádiz | Organic |
Table 1: Description of our beekeepers
We know these beekeepers well. Furthermore, we have visited their facilities, their beehives and extraction sites. Also, all these beekeeppers are involved in all steps from harvesting to bottling the honey. Consequently, we can make sure that we only offer high-quality honey.
Moreover, heather honey is produced in most European countries. However, the varieties of heather are different in Spain. Also, countries such as Norway, and the north of the United Kingdom, exactly, have high production of heather honey. Consequently, in European countries it is easy to find this honey in supermarkets such as: Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, Waitrose, M&S, Holland and Barret.
Discórides also deals with this plant in chapter 97 of his book I and here he already indicated the importance of the honey produced by the bees of this bush. Later, in the 25th century, pharmacists such as Mattioli and Laguna already spoke of the benefits of heather in urinary treatment.
In addition, these are the most frequent asked questions:
Heather honey is a no very sweet honey, because it has a lot of minerals that reduce its sweetness.
This information should be given also to you by your doctor. It is true, however, that many clients tell me that they take heather honey for their prostate and it is very good for them.
Heather honey will also be present in honeys such as mountain, forest and thousand-flower honeys.
Finally, we show you the physical-chemical parameters that any heather honey must pass.
Characteristics of heather honey |
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| Colour (mm Pfund) Maximum 49 -114 | Humidity (%). Max. 18 | Fructose + glucose: Minimum 60 |
| Sucrose: Maximum 5 | Electrical conductivity (mS/cm): minimum 0.5 or higher 0.80 | Free acidity (meq/kg): Maximum 50 |
| HMF (mg/Kg = ppm): Maximum 40 | Diastasases (Schade Units): Minimum 8 | |
Table 2: Directive 110/2001 EC, RD 1049/2003 in Spain.
In short, a strong Spanish honey with great healthy properties. Therefore, a honey that is always worth having at home.
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