About this Honey
produced in the vast agricultural belts of the Midwest. Soybean honey is light in color and mild in flavor, similar to clover but thinner in body. It is often a "filler" honey in commercial blends, but pure raw soybean honey is pleasant, sweet, and fruity. It is a reliable, everyday sweetener.
Honey Characteristics
Glycine max
Summer
Specialty
Midwest Agricultural Belt
Faint, clean sugar, soft warm field grass
Lightweight, thin, rapid pour
Honey Profile Chart
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The Story
Produced across the massive, uninterrupted agricultural fields stretching through the American Midwest, Soybean honey represents a highly reliable pillar of domestic apiculture. Sourced from the dense, hidden summer blooms of Glycine max, honey bees must work through dense rows of field crops to pull this light golden nectar, which is highly prized for its clean, reliable simplicity.\n\nBoasting an elevated glucose architecture, it features a rapid crystallization speed and pairs that with a characteristically thin, light physical body on the spoon. When kept raw and unblended, its sugar structure delivers a highly pleasant, mild sweetness laced with delicate fruity high-notes and low acidity, performing exceptionally well as a neutral carbohydrate baseline for large-scale home baking and everyday tabletop use.
Sensory Profile
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At a Glance
A Specialty variety, harvested in Summer, from Midwest Agricultural Belt, derived from Glycine max blossoms.