Honey & Syrups

🇭🇷Croatia

Acacia Honey

Bagremov med

In Croatia, Acacia Honey is light clear acacia honey with mild floral taste.

🇵🇪Piura, Peru

Algarrobina

Piura carob syrup used in desserts and the pisco-based algarrobina cocktail.

🇦🇩Andorra

Andorran Honey

Mel

Mountain-flower honey from Andorra's high valleys.

🇷🇺Urals, Russia

Bashkir Honey

Башкирский мёд

Bashkir honey is honey from Bashkiria, especially linden (lipa) and buckwheat varieties.

🇨🇦Canada

Birch syrup

A Canadian and northern-US syrup tapped from birch trees, thinner and darker than maple with a distinct wintergreen note.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Chancaca

A Bolivian unrefined cane sugar block, used in desserts and drinks

🇭🇷Croatia

Chestnut Honey

Kestenov med

In Croatia, Chestnut Honey is dark robust chestnut honey with bitter-sweet woody notes.

🇷🇪Reunion

Cooked Syrup

Sirop la Cuite

Cooked syrup from sugarcane; a traditional Reunionese product; made at the refinery; sweet and rich; a TasteAtlas-listed must-try; the sirop la cuite that is a Reunionese sugarcane product.

🇧🇩Khulna Division, Bangladesh

Date Palm Molasses

নলেন গুড়

Sap tapped from date palms in the cold months and boiled down into a fragrant, smoky liquid or cake of molasses.

🇹🇷Black Sea Region, Turkey

Deli bal

Deli bal ("mad honey"), the grayanotoxin-bearing rhododendron honey of the eastern Black Sea, is genuinely singular and is bought by the spoonful by name.

Ingredient

Dharma Honey

عسل ضرم

Dharma honey is a named Saudi floral honey gathered from dharma trees, sold as a regional honey rather than as generic wild honey.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands Honey

Local honey is bottled from hives foraged on Falklands plants.

🇺🇸Alaska, United States

Fireweed honey

An Alaskan honey made from fireweed blossoms, pale and delicate with a light, floral sweetness.

🇬🇧London, United Kingdom

Golden Syrup

A pale amber cane sugar syrup with a caramel-butterscotch taste, sold in a green and gold tin that has barely changed since 1885.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Nutmeg Syrup

Nutmeg Syrup

Sweet syrup infused with Grenada's signature nutmeg; a distinctive product of the Spice Isle; used on pancakes, ice cream, and desserts; a popular food souvenir; produced by local artisans; the nutmeg syrup of Grenada; a versatile condiment; the essence of the island's spice in liquid form.

🇲🇻Maldives

Hakuru

ހަކުރު

Coconut-palm sap is reduced into a thick Maldivian sweetener used in desserts and breakfast dishes.

🇧🇦Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Herzegovinian Sage Honey

Kadulja med

Honey from wild sage flowering on the Herzegovinian karst in May, pale, thick and strongly aromatic.

🇷🇸Serbia

Homolje Honey

Хомољски мед

Honey from the wooded hills in the east, sold as acacia, linden or forest honey and prized as the country's benchmark.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Honey Manioc Balls

Bolinhos de mandioca com mel

Deep-fried balls of cassava dough sweetened with honey, crisp on the outside and dense within.

🇰🇭Central Cambodia (Phnom Penh lowlands), Cambodia

Kampong Speu Palm Sugar

ស្ករត្នោតកំពង់ស្ពឺ

Palm sugar from Kampong Speu province, GI-protected since 2010, made from the sap of the sugar palm boiled and moulded into discs.

🇸🇮Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia

Karst Honey

Kraški med

Honey from the Karst's linden, acacia and chestnut flowers, protected by origin and darker and more resinous than lowland honey.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Kithul Treacle

කිතුල් පැණි

Sap tapped from the flower of the fishtail palm and boiled down into a dark, smoky syrup with a faintly bitter edge.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Kočevje Forest Honey

Kočevski gozdni med

Dark honeydew honey from the fir and spruce forests of Kočevje, protected by origin, resinous and barely sweet.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz Mountain Honey

Тоо балы

Honey from hives moved up to alpine meadows in summer, often near-white and setting to a fine paste, from Suusamyr and the Ak-Talaa valleys.

🇦🇺Tasmania, Australia

Leatherwood Honey

Single-floral honey from leatherwood blossom in Tasmania's west-coast rainforests, with a distinctive spicy-resinous aroma and firm set; produced only in Tasmania yet stocked nationwide.

🇨🇦Canada

Maple Syrup

Sirop d'érable

Sweet syrup made from maple sap, Canada produces about 80% of world supply, essential Canadian ingredient.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Marque Nationale Honey

Lëtzebuerger Hunneg

Honey from Luxembourgish hives certified under the national mark, mostly rapeseed in spring and forest honeydew in late summer.

🇵🇹Portugal

Mel da Terra Quente

Mel da Terra Quente is a Portuguese honey from Bragança District, collected from local flowers and sold for its fragrant, concentrated sweetness.

🇵🇹Portugal

Mel de Barroso

Mel de Barroso is a Portuguese honey from Barroso, collected from local flowers and sold for its fragrant, concentrated sweetness.

🇵🇹Madeira, Portugal

Mel de cana

Mel de cana is Madeira sugar-cane syrup, reduced from cane juice into a dark, treacly sweetener used in cakes, breads, and drinks.

🇨🇴Colombia

Melado

A Colombian sweet of panela and sugar cooked into a thick, dark syrup, used to glaze pastries or eaten with cheese. A rustic, traditional sweet.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Miel de Panela

An Ecuadorian cane syrup (molasses) from panela, used in desserts and drinks

🇵🇱Poland

Miód drahimski

Miód drahimski is a honey or bee product from Drawsko County, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇵🇱Poland

Miód kurpiowski

Miód kurpiowski is a honey or bee product from Masovian Voivodeship, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Mānuka Honey

Honey from bees working mānuka flowers, thick, dark and graded by its methylglyoxal content.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Omani Sidr Honey

عسل السدر

Omani Sidr honey comes from bees foraging on Sidr blossoms; it is typically dark, thick, and aromatic with a rich taste.