Pine Honey
500 g. / 250 g.
Turkish Pine Honey is a type of honeydew honey. It is sweet
and spicy honey, with some woody notes, resinous fragrance
and dark amber color. It is a common breakfast dish in Turkey,
where it is drizzled over yoghurt and eaten with bread.
Pine honey is an unusual honey by bees that collect
honeydew (sugary secretions) from species called
Marchalina hellenica, which lives on the sap of certain
pine trees. Pine honey is produced around Mediterranean
Turkey of which produces 92% of the world’s pine honey.
Muğla Province accounts for 80% of Turkish pine honey production.