What Exactly Is RAW Honey? 

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Honey lasts indefinitely. They literally found 2000 year old Roman honey on a shipwreck, solidified in a large ceramic pot. They heated it back up, clarified it, and then ate some. They said it tasted delicious, albeit different than other flavors. That was because the flowers that the bees fed on were different!

Honey's shelf life is longer than the shelf it sits on. We have edible honey from ancient tombs in egypt

“Extends its shelf life” :D .. lol, honey doesn’t have a shelf life.

taking a bite off a chunk of the bee hive itself is a completely different experience lol, way more fun to eat honey like that

Beekeeper here, 3 things. 1) DO NOT microwave honey. It kills off the microbes in the honey that are good for you. 2) Honey doesn’t expire. It crystallizes. Simply reheat in a bowl of warm-hot water (refer to #1) 3) just a friendly reminder to never give honey to infants under 12 months. Please ask your doctor if you have questions.

Fun fact: pasteurization extends the shelflife of honey from 5,000 years to 5,010 years 👍

As a beekeeper that Honey looks more like creamed honey or granulated then raw honey, you intentionally cream it to use as a spread by adding dextrose crystals and stirring it, while granulated is the same reaction done unintentionally. also you do not microwave honey you should slowly heat it by submerging it's container in boiling water or it will recrystallize quickly

As a beekeeper our honey comes out of the hive in the crystal look what you are calling pasteurized or regular.

Honey does not have a shelf life. When it's heated, it is to keep the honey from crystalizing for a longer time. When it does start to crystallize again, it can be rewarmed in a warm water bath. Just keep the honey from getting water in it. I'm glad you like honey! So many benefits when used in moderation. I used to help my family when we had bees.

This guy is the reason we have an expiration date on himalayan salt.

Microwaving raw honey is about the worst possible thing you can do to it. If you need to warm it up, use a warm water bath (but make sure no water gets into the honey). Also, honey doesn't go bad if stored away from moisture. They have found edible honey that's several thousands of years old.

I've tried raw honey, it has a weird texture if not liquified but still tastes better than normal honey

Just a correction from a beekeeper, It's not cloudy, it's crystalised, where the sugar will turn into small crystals in colder temperatures. Depending on how much you strain it, depends on how many crystals it has, and how easy it will crystalise. Pasteurised honey is often strained and heated which removes natural enzymes as you said, but also stops crystallisation for a very long duration of time.

honey, honey doesn’t expire.

Even if honey had been sitting on your shelf for 2,000 years, that honey would still be as good as the day you opened it

Did you know, another excellent reason to choose raw honey is the abundance of enzymes found within it that are otherwise removed during pasteurization. Be careful not to over heat the honey whether it be in the microwave or by boiling it to soften it. The best method to preserving these enzymes while softening honey is to slowly heat it in water that doesn’t exceed 105 degrees, or place the honey outside in the sun

Put it in hot water to liquefy it. Zapping it in the microwave also kills the beneficial enzymes. It's basically flash-pasteurization

"Extends shelf life" bro, honey is the only food that NEVER goes bad

Honey never spoils it doesn't need to be pasturized.. it lasts forever

My dad kept honeybees throughout a good portion of my childhood. It was always my favorite thing to help him with when it came time to harvest. Ive never seen cloudy honey like this though. Its always looked like it does at the store except never a consistent hue of amber

I had 5 lbs. of honey. The whole thing crystallized. I just dug out what I needed and melted it. Honey has a shelf life of eternity it seems. They found a jar of 3,000 year old honey that was still good.

Honey is one of those things you shouldn't cheap out on but you also shouldn't go for the most expensive option thinking it's the best.

Extends it's shelf life from infinity to infinity times 2

compliments for doing a video about honey explaining everything except what's most important about it: how it's made.

As a beekeeper…DO NOT MICROWAVE HONEY

Bro, honey never goes bad, not even for thousands of years

Okay, first of all, under no circumstances should you MICROWAVE raw honey. Not only do you kill a lot of the enzymes and stuff that are good for you but that superheating can do bad stuff to impurities in the honey causing them to pop or become way too hot compared to the honey (or glass) around it. I've never had a jar shatter or explode on me but I have had one jump and spray scalding honey all over my microwave. If you need to melt your honey take the jar and place it in a pot of water. Bring that water to just under a boil and wait. It takes longer but its safer. Edit: You CAN microwave pasteurized honey but it's still not recommended for the same reasons as above. It's significantly safer though. Additionally if your honey is in a plastic container and has turned to crystal, wait for it to harden completely and then slice open the container with a sharp, sterile knife or kitchen scissors. Put it in a glass or ceramic container or bowl and melt over the stove. "white" or "cloudy" honey is significantly more expensive but there was also a lot less work put into it. You're paying more money for the people who make it to do less work since they don't have to filter out the fine pollen. There are no significant health benefits to pollen so only buy it if you prefer the taste since in all other ways its exactly like standard raw honey. Edit: I forgot to include cloudy honey may also have some wax in it. The wax is safe to eat but that means they didn't even bother removing the honey from the wax. Again, unless you're specifically fond of the taste just get normal honey. You get more volume for less money. Additionally pasteurized honey does not have a longer shelf life than raw honey. As long as you don't introduce sugar eating bacteria or fungi honey stays good basically forever. Raw honey will crystalize faster due to impurities but if that happens see my above instructions for melting it.

Another Factor reason why is more crystallized and solid it's because of the polarization where the bees are collecting their nectar depend on the geographic land and the type of flowers.

Pro tip. Honey never ever goes bad. It never spoilds

Extend shelf life? Someone tell him honey doesn't go bad.

If you buy your honey from a local beekeeper you're most likely guaranteed to get nothing but pure, raw honey. You're going to pay a premium for it up to $1.50 an ounce in some areas, but you're getting what you pay for. The alternative is store bought which sometimes has been altered with corn syrup, or comes from areas of concern when it comes to safe harvesting practices, and what may have been added to the honey before being bottled and labeled for sale.

"Raw" honey can be even more fluid and runny and crystal clear than "pasteurised honey". My grandpa was a hobbist beekeeper and we always had fresh honey. The honey made from the flowers of a tree called "black locust tree" known as pseudoacacia is always almost transparent, runny and the most amazing honey I ve had.

"extend its shelf life" Like that's actually necessary.

All honey is strained to remove wax, bees, etc. Raw honey likely has more pollen and wax in it. Usually bees store pollen, honey, or nectar separately. They eat pollen and turn nectar into honey via fermentation. So the think light brown stuff probably has a bunch of pollen and some wax in the mix. "Natural" honey looks very similar to the standard honey you're used to.

Thanks for mentioning antioxidants! So important!

I lost it when he mentioned EXTEND SHELF LIFE, honey literally stays like for a Century 😂

you’re the reason there is confusion about honey.

3,000 year old Egyptian honey has entered chat.

The way "liquify" is said tickles my brain

Honey does NOT expire, but the container might, so be careful.

If you have a honey that goes bad, it means you were ripped off

My family has had bees for years and I’ve always helped on harvest day. Not once have I seen anything remotely close to that “raw” honey. The honey inside the capped comb is just like you would imagine, liquid golden honey. I’m thinking they are just melting the wax/comb with the honey and packaging it as something special when in reality it’s not at all. Zero bee honey looks like that “raw” stuff

A tip i learned from work(honey store at the Renaissance faire) is if your honey starts crystaluzing, you can put it in a stand mixer and make whipped honey. And like the video obviously said you can just melt it back down

A beekeper once explained the difference to me, but he used the words lliving honey and dead honey. He basically said that living honey is much better for any form of raw consumption (like spreading on your bread), since it tastes better and is much healthier. But He recommended dead honey for everything that heats the honey, like cooking, honeywine making, putting it into tea etc.

I used be part of a group that would set up and take care of beehives in community gardens, and schools. Each one of our hives honey had a distinct flavor because we sold it raw. It’s crazy how much the flavor can change, we had one hive in a little orchard that made super sweet fruity honey. Another was in a community garden that grew a lot of herbs vegetables it’s honey had wonderful sweet herbal and earthy flavor. One of the favorites of the community was the hives we had in point defiance park their honey had a minty flavor to it.

lol i had raw honey straight out of the hive in Africa… literally had bees still in it, looked like regular liquid honey, it was almost clear because of the local flowers in the bush there.

Pasteurized honey container looks cute 😊

Raw honey, if extracted properly, will last thousands of years. They find perfectly edible honey occasionally in archaeological digs. Pasteurised honey does have a shelf life. If you are lucky, it will candy as it approaches the shelf life, which will stabilise it, meaning you can heat it up to liquify and immediately use. If your pasteurised honey starts to taste bitter, it’s past it, so leave it outside on a plate for honey bees, wasps, etc. you should never microwave honey, not just because of the risk of it exploding, but because the localised intense heat can destroy much of the nutritional value. Dissolve it in a water bath slowly.

My grandpa who is a beekeeper says that you shouldn't microwave/heat up honey since it destroy some of the natural flavor compounds found in raw honey.

I've watched my grandpa keep bees and extract honey my entire life helping extract several times and I've never seen anything remotely close to this "raw honey". I think its just a processed product for city people. Omg its organic tske my money. Straight from the comb honey looks exactly like the store bought honey except some solid bits that need to be filtered. And no before someone says its normal honey its just crystallized no. It wouldn't be smooth like that. Its crunchy. And it takes a long time to get hard if the jar is sealed properly. My grandpa keeps gallons and gallos of honey in the basement and often times it takes over a year for the honey to harden. Btw its better to boil some water and take it off the stove then put the honey jar in the water and melt it that way.

pasteurized honey was the only type of honey I ever had experience with as a kid and it tasted disgusting to me then and it still does to me now. but once I tried raw honey for the first time thinking it'd taste just as bad, I was pleasantly surprised it wasn't, it was so delicious it's the type of sweet goodness that makes you want to put it on everything you eat.

Absolutely love the raw honey I get from some local beekeepers. Tastes absolutely different from anything else I get at the store.

I’d definitely use a warm water bath over a microwave for raw honey. And keep the water below boiling.

Dont use metal utensils for honey. Honey is very acidic, putting metal in it will alter the taste.

When I first had a Sprecher craft soda. It said on the bottle it had Honey in it. I looked In the ingredient list and I saw “Raw Honey”. WOW, Sprecher isn’t messing around with processed honey

Bro just recommended microwaving raw honey😂

Never heard about raw honey... In Sweden, that is what the ordinary honey looks like!! (As oppose to "liquid honey", that has only been around a couple of years...)

"Heat can remove the enzymes, antioxidants, and flavor of your honey" "If your raw honey misbehaves, throw it in the microwave"

The clear raw honey is the best, nothing can change my mind.

Best to make crystalized honey back to liquid is to put the jar is warm water and stir until the ideal consistency is reached.

Saying that honey has an expiration date means that it is an imitation with something else added to the person's honey. In other words, if you ask and find out where the person bought the honey, you don't have to buy it there. Great tip!

I like grabbing local honey it’s always cool to see the color of the honey change through the year

I love raw organic honey 😋 Yum-yum-yum. And the coarse- ish texture exploding deliciousness on the roof of my mouth adds to the experience. 😊

As a non-american, I didn't even know there was a pasteurised honey

I bought a gallon of raspberry blossom honey from kallas recently and it's the best honey I've ever had. It isn't 100% raw as they heat it slightly to make it flow through their machinery easier but it wasn't heated to the point of "pasteurization" either

There's also churned/creamed honey that's also thick and opaque, but is often made from the clarified honey.

I just ate from my hive today! So good!

I love raw honey. 😋 Creamy and delicious. Thank you bees! 🐝❤

Extends its shelf life honey can't expire

Raw honey: has literally been found edible in Egyptian tombs that are thousands of years old This absolute unit: *EXTENDS THE SHELF LIFE*

raw honey is so good. I recommend buying raw honey from a local source. oh also. pasteurized honey a lot of times has high fructose corn syrup in it too.

When I had acne I used to use raw honey as a mask and it helped clear my skin it was amazing

i just realized I've never had pasteurized honey, my family always just called raw honey "honey"

Bro violated that honey bottle

I had no idea about pasteurised honey until now. I'm so grateful to have honey straight from the beekeepers in Poland.

I have learned the pollen in my honey is what I love. It is like a natural sweetness that can’t be achieved with anything else. Like a flower umami lol

Today's fact: honey is immortal.

When I was young, I was completely unaware of unpasterized honey and we only had that digusting billy bee honey and I absolutely hate it and never ate honey again. Until I rediscover unpasterized honey this year, what a tasre and texture, I couldn't believe how diverse and how good it is.

The pollen that’s left in raw honey gives the crystals something to form on. That’s why raw honey is often grainy/crystallized.

I only get my honey from the local bee man since it helps in the spring with allergies

I get raw honey every single time. I noticed a big difference in flavor, raw filtered honey is always more crisp and it’s just better for you. I always integrate it into a preworkout food to give me carbs for training

Seems to be some confusion over how to soften the honey too! Boil some water, remove from heat, place jar in water. This will gently restore its liquid form without damaging any properties!

Heating your raw honey will partially pasteurize it (even if it still contains pollens). Heated raw honey will crystallize back, but super hard (just like pasteurised honey after a time). The heat will also destroy the enzymes. I recommend you to simply appreciate it in it's raw buttery-solid form. The raw honeys we produce, which have never been heated or filtered, stay smooth (soft-hard, I don't know how to say it in English) for many years. If you really want to liquify it just slowly heat it in a bain-marie (I still don't recommend heating it at all). 🐝

I just realized that the honey I used to eat at my grandparents house wasn’t just dried/crystallized honey, it was raw honey

Raw honey is the best, I love tasting the different flavors of different flowers the bees visited!

I love the yellow cloudy wild flower raw honey, it's the best

Extending the shelf life of something that would propably last longer than the shelf it's on is insane.

As someone with a quarter bottle of raw honey in the cabinet that I haven’t touched in two years, apparently it doesn’t expire 😂

I LOVE creamed honey. Its delicious and has a different texture.

My dad is a bee keeper and honey from stores is basically just corn syrup. They heat treat it so it takes out all of the stuff that you think is helping your allergies. Local honey is a 25-50 mile distance from the store so when items from stores say they are local but the honey is from Florida but you live in Texas it’s really not. That’s was a really random paragraph about honey..😭 Edit: also honey stays good forever but I does crystallize which is really easy to fix

Best midnight snack, something crunchy and dipppppp

Do not eat honey off shelves if you dont trust it or know it. America has laws that permit companies to add a high volume of stuff that isn't honey into their honey bottles, and then label it as fully real honey.

Bro violated that honey bear 😭💀💀

I grew up with raw honey from the small farm in our town and that stuff was the best honey I’ve ever tasted. When I moved and went to buy honey and didn’t find any raw honey in the small supermarket o was devastated but took „regular“ honey with me instead. Honestly, tasted like shit after being used to the good stuff.

Thank you for that, I always thought raw honey was bougee, you were right Dr. Mike Israetel!

Raw honey with bread was my most favorite breakfast when I was a kid😍

“Extends its shelf life” Honey with an infinite shelf life:

some honey will stay completely clear forever because of less cystals in the pollen such as Acacia tree honey. it stay completely clear and will keep forever. it's immortal honey

I was going to point out honey doesn't really have a shelf life, it's essentially self immortal. But a ton of people beat me to it, so props to them