We buy honey from a local beekeeper, sometimes the honey is the classic, runny honey and other times it’s hard, white and somewhat grainy (looks similiar to fat). What’s the difference?
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Honey is a super-saturated solution of two sugars: glucose and fructose. The proportions of these two sugars are characteristic of the plants the bees fed on to make their honey. It’s the glucose that crystallizes, so some types of honey are more resistant to crystallization because they have low glucose.
Since it’s super-saturated, it’s a natural chemical process that some of the sugars eventually come out of solution. Honey will even crystallize when it’s still in the comb.
Crystallized honey is actually a sign that the honey is high quality. It’s fairly simple to turn your honey back into a smooth liquid again by heating it. The best way to do this is to put your honey in a bowl of warm water and slowly letting it warm up.
Honey naturally crystallises over time, you just have to immerse it in hot water to reverse it
What you are seeing is likely crystalization. Honey is a form of highly concentrated syrup, a mixture of water and sugar. Sugar in high concentrations can start to form crystals. And when crystals stars to form they grow and become quite big. This is the form which you normally buy sugar in.
“Based on its texture, honey can be either liquid, granulated, creamed, chunked, or can be of an unprocessed form (called comb honey).”
https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/different-types-of-honey/
I got some raw honey this summer with some water added but now it is grainy and thicker so I’m also curious about this. It still tastes great
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