Rapeseed honey
Brassica napus
Honey from oilseed rape fields. It is rich in glucose and crystallizes within days into a white, smooth mass.
- Origin
- Europe, Canada
- Colour
- 25 mm · white
- Taste
- mildly sweet, faintly cabbage-like aroma
- Crystallization
- very fast
- Plant
- Brassica napus · brassica (rape, mustard) →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
Because it crystallizes so fast, rapeseed honey is usually sold as creamed honey.
More honeys
Lavender honeyProvence (France), Spain
Orange blossom honeySpain (Valencia), Italy, Florida, Mexico
Raspberry honeyGermany, Finland
Sainfoin honeyItaly (Apennines) and other parts of Europe where sainfoin is grown
Sweet clover honeyUkraine, southern Russia, Poland
Willow honeyLithuania, Poland
Mel dos Açores – incenso honeyAzores (São Miguel, Terceira, Pico, Santa Maria), Portugal
Borage honeyEast of England
Sources
- Persano Oddo L., Piro R. (2004): Main European unifloral honeys: descriptive sheets. Apidologie 35, S38–S81.
- vetuni.cz/files/2340_59_ATLAS.pdf