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You are here: Browse by Category > New Zealand Food & Candy > Honeys From New Zealand > Airborne Honeydew Honey - 17.64 oz (500g) Airborne Honeydew Honey - 17.64 oz (500g)" Are You Looking For Some Typically New Zealand Honey To Remind You Of Your Trip To This Wonderful Country Or To Provide You With All The Goodies That You Miss?"
If you answered "YES!" then have a closer look at this Honey - found in native forests, full flavor aroma is heady, almost pungent. (Click on the image to see a bigger picture of it).
Honeydew is collected from the beech forests of New Zealand's beautiful South Island. The honey is a thick red amber color and has a strong and unique malty flavor. Particularly good for use in cooking and marinating.
Airborne Honeydew Honey ...
Honeydew nectar is produced from a small scale insect (Ultracoelostoma assimilie) living in the bark of two of New Zealand's beech forests, mostly black beech (black from the sooty mold growing on the surplus nectar covering the trunks and branches) and to a lesser extent, red beech. In the early morning sunlight, the droplets of nectar glisten like the the morning dew, giving the name honeydew. Honeybees gather this nectar to produce honeydew, a process they carry out in many other countries in the World, most notably in Germany's "Black Forest".
A full flavor and aroma, heady, almost pungent, malty. A thick red amber honey and one of our strongest flavored. Great in marinades to give a richness to barbeque's or roasts. Full of mineral goodness, a typical trait of honeydews.
Honeydew is a classification of honey that refers to honey produced by honeybees collecting nectar that is exuded from another insect such as an aphid or scale insect. It is quite common in a number of countries and the best known is honeydew from the Black Forest in Germany. World wide it is referred to variously as "forest honey", "Pine honey", "Fir honey" etc. and may be referred to by the specific species of tree producing the honeydew.
New Zealand Honeydew
New Zealand Honeydew is one of New Zealand's premium export honeys. It has a history of export to Europe and specifically Germany since the early 1970s. There are several honeydew producing scale insects in New Zealand inhabiting a variety of plants. However most of these are small honeydew sources or intermittent production. The beech forests of the South Island are a different story however.
Two species of beech tree inhabited by two species of honeydew insect (the sooty beech scales) produce New Zealand's largest single exported honey crop. The beech trees are Black Beech (Nothofagus solandri) and Red Beech (N. fusca). The two insects are Ultracoelostoma assimile and U. brittini. U. brittini tends to inhabit the trunks and larger branches, while U. assimile is recorded (C.F.Morales) as favoring the upper branches and twigs, thus U.brittini is the insect most likely to be encountered by the casual observer wandering in the beech forests.
The black color of trees and plants with a honeydew source is due to the growth of a black sooty mold (Capnodium fungus) on the surplus nectar exuding over the plant and sometimes even the ground. Particles of this fungus are typically found in honeydew and are used as a part of the identification as honeydew.
Color
Beech honeydew is one of our darker honey types with a Pfund Scale average of 87.2mm and a Standard Deviation of 10.5mm (600 records). Color does depend to some extent on area. There are some areas that do produce darker honeydew. Whether this is due to local conditions or blends of lighter (non honeydew) honeys is uncertain but we can find no correlation between conductivity and color. Honeydew is generally a slower honey flow than most of the other flower honeys (although there are exceptions of course), and honeybees prefer to store honeys like this closer to the brood nest, typically in darker combs. This can darken the color of the resultant honey.
Conductivity ...
New Zealand Beech honeydew is typical of most honeydews in having a high conductivity. This arises from the nature of honeydew production. An insect of the Homiptera order of insects (those with sap sucking mouth parts e.g. aphids, scale insects etc.) sucks sap from the host plant and exudes a sweet sticky nectar which is essentially slightly modified sap. This is then collected by honeybees as a nectar source and is "ripened" into honey.
This pathway is quite different from that of normal flower honeys. The direct sucking of the sap, the additional insect in the production chain, and the presences of sooty molds, all add up to an additional mineral content not normally found in flower honeys. This is indirectly measured by the ability of honeydew to conduct electricity. The average conductivity for Beech honeydew is 12.6 mS/cm with a standard deviation of 2.5mS/cm (750 records).
Sugar Profile ...
Honeydews are normally high in Fructose, low in glucose and have higher levels of higher sugars such as maltose . Their tendency to crystallize is also low. Beech honeydew is likewise very slow crystallizing and in fact some beech honeydews never crystallize.
Another feature of New Zealand beech honeydew is the presence of oligosaccharides (complex sugars) in greater levels than average flower honeys.
It has been shown that oligosaccharides are helpful in maintaining and promoting beneficial bacteria in the gut, particularly after treatment with antibiotics.
Moisture Content - Presence of Yeasts ...
Normally honeydew is below 17% moisture. In the main production area, fermentation is not generally a concern, but the environment is such that large populations of yeast can occur in the honeydew forests. This is due to the presence of large quantities of a food resource (honeydew nectar) and, particularly after rain, wet conditions.
At times the forest can smell quite sour with a fermentation smell and wasps can be observed drunk on the tree trunks. Under these conditions, high levels of yeast may occur in honeydew honey that come from this environment, rather than from fermentation of the ripened honey. It is possible that this may be marked against the product as a perceived quality issue, rather than it being a natural occurrence.
Nutrition Information
| Items |
Qty per Serving |
Qty per 100g |
| Energy |
272kj(65Cal) |
1360kj(325Cal) |
| Protein |
Less than 1g |
Less than 1g |
| Fat,Total |
0g |
0g |
| Saturated |
0g |
0g |
| Carbohydrate |
16g |
80g |
| Sugars |
15g |
75g |
| Sodium |
Less than 5mg |
Less than 5mg |
Enjoy it on hot buttered toast!!
Please note that we unfortunately can not ship Honey to the following countries:
- Western Australia
We are selling this product in bulk as it is a more economical way of getting it to you. However if you would prefer to only order in single units please email me.
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