Slavonski med
Honey with a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) from the Slavonian plains between the Drava and the Sava. It may be acacia, lime, rapeseed, sunflower, chestnut, blossom or Turkey oak honeydew honey. The colour ranges from pale yellow in acacia and rapeseed honey to brown in chestnut honey.
- Origin
- Slavonia, eastern Croatia
- Colour
- 35 mm · extra light amber
- Taste
- by kind; acacia mild, lime slightly bitter, chestnut bitter to sourish
- Season
- April – August
- Plant
- various: Robinia pseudoacacia, Tilia, Brassica napus, Helianthus annuus, Castanea sativa · robinia (false acacia) →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical of the variety, not a measurement of one jar. Where a source describes the colour only in words (such as ‘light amber’), we convert it to the middle of the matching band of the Pfund scale, so the figure is approximate. The season follows the sources or, failing that, the flowering time of the plant in that area.
Only local grey bees of the Pannonian Carniolan type may produce it, and it may contain at most 18.3% water and 16.5 mg/kg HMF.