About Honey & Bees
At Pure Sweet Honey, we know that high-quality honey adds immense value and many health benefits to foods, drinks, and other goods across dozens of industries. If you’re looking to enhance your products, keep reading to learn more about our 100% pure honey.
BACKGROUND about honey
Honey is one of nature’s most versatile and wholesome foods, crafted exclusively by honeybees from nectar gathered from flowering plants. Every drop of pure honey is a testament to the tireless work of honeybees, who collectively travel thousands of miles and visit millions of flowers to produce this golden treasure.
A strong hive of 40,000 or more bees can produce an annual surplus of 80 pounds of honey under ideal conditions. While some years yield modest amounts, other seasons can produce as much as 150–200 pounds.
The Natural Properties of Honey
The unique properties of raw honey—its flavor, color, and texture—are determined by the nectar it originates from. Neither the bees nor the honey processor alters these natural characteristics.
- Dark Honey: Rich, robust flavor with a bold profile.
- Light Honey: Milder, more delicate taste.
The bees invert the sugar in the nectar and dry it to a perfect consistency that prevents fermentation, ensuring a long shelf life.
100% Raw, Natural, Unfiltered Honey
At Pure Sweet Honey, we supply raw honey, unfiltered honey, and specialty floral varieties in their purest forms—just as they are extracted from the honeycomb.
- Single Floral Varieties: Available options include clover, orange blossom, wildflower, tupelo, and buckwheat honey. Each has its own distinctive flavor and aroma.
- Functional Benefits: Honey’s natural properties make it an excellent ingredient for food applications, offering natural sweetness, beautiful golden color, and moisture retention for baked goods.
Why Choose Our Bulk Honey?
Our honey is:
- 100% Pure: No additives, processing, or artificial ingredients.
- Certified: Many of our products meet USDA Grade A standards and are available as organic honey.
- Versatile: Perfect for culinary, retail, or industrial uses.
Whether you’re looking for bulk honey, grade A honey, or wholesale honey distribution, we ensure you receive the best quality with every order.
Benefits of Honey[1]
- Contains a variety of nutrients
- Rich in antioxidants
- Better for blood sugar levels than regular sugar
- May improve heart health
- Promotes burn and wound healing
- May help suppress coughing in children
- Easy to add to your diet
- Honey is a natural product formed from nectar of flowers by honeybees (Apis mellifera; Family: Apidae).
- Honey has been used by humans since ancient times, nearly 5500 years ago.
- Most ancient population, including the Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, Romans, Mayans, and Babylonians, consumed honey both for nutritional aims and for its medicinal properties.
- Honey is the only insect-derived natural product, and it has nutritional, cosmetic, therapeutic, and industrial values.
- Today, approximately 300 types of honey have been recognized. These varieties are related to the different types of nectar that are collected by the honeybees. coughing in children
[1] Ld, S. S. M. R. (2023, May 15). Everything to know about the Health Benefits of Honey. Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/benefits-of-honey
[2] Samarghandian, S., Mehrpour, O., & Samini, F. (2017). Honey and Health: A Review of Recent Clinical Research. PubMed, 9(2), 121–127. https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-8490.204647
ABOUT honey bees
Honey bees are essential to maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the reproduction of plants, and supporting agricultural systems in the United States and internationally. Sure, we could survive without these bees, but our diet would be pretty bland. Honey bees’ pollination is responsible for over 35% of the foods we eat, including apples, cashews, cucumbers, peaches, watermelon, and many more of our favorite produce.
As bees move from flower to flower in search of food, they inadvertently transfer pollen between the flowers. This transfer ensures the reproduction of many of these plants, which, in turn, promotes a diverse ecosystem. Honey bees aren’t the only pollinators that lead to reproduction, but they have several unique traits that allow them to be especially effective at their job. Their bodies, equipped with hair and “pollen baskets” on their legs, allow them to easily collect and transfer pollen. They can also be moved in large numbers from crop to crop or plant to plant by trained beekeepers. These large groups allow for increased biodiversity and the best “bang for your buck” for farmers. In addition, honey bees tend to forage on and pollinate many types of crops, flowers, and plants, allowing them to be versatile pollinators for many different ecosystems.
- Responsible for > 35% of the food we eat
- Pollinate 80% of all flower plants
- Responsible for the pollination of crops across all 50 states in the U.S.
- Pollinate crops in 6 continents (excluding Antarctica)
- Play an essential role in the production of 90 different crops
- 1,152 bees
- 90,000 miles of flight [2]
- 4.5 million flowers pollinated
[1] National Honey Board. Honey Bees Keep the Food World Buzzing Pollination Infographic. https://honey.com
[2] Fun facts. American Bee Journal. (2016, February 29). https://americanbeejournal.com.
