Syrup
Raw Honey
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Raw honey is unheated, or only barely warmed, and usually unfiltered beyond a coarse strain: pollen, fine wax, and the original crystal habit stay in the jar. Flavour follows whatever the bees worked—raw is a process claim, not a flower. A good raw honey tastes alive and can look cloudy. It is not safer for infants than any other honey. Gentle warming to decrystalise is fine; boiling for a glaze makes it cooked honey with a raw label. Buy from a keeper who can name the forage.
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History
Health-food shops distinguished raw, unheated honey from supermarket pasteurised packs.
Raw became a farmers-market selling word, sometimes without a temperature definition.
Pollen and enzyme talk pushed raw honey into natural-food grocery.
Serious keepers stated max temperature and forage rather than only "raw."