Where can I buy good honey?
Your best bet is to find local or regional honey at your market. The mass-produced stuff is usually a cooked-down (pasteurized) blend of hundreds of different honeys and not nearly as delicious.
What should I look for (or avoid) on the label?
Honey jars usually list one ingredient: honey. But that doesnât tell you a whole lot about what youâre getting. Hereâs how to decode a few other words you might encounter:
Raw
This is an unregulated term that refers to honey thatâs either straight from the honeycomb or minimally heated. It can be cloudy (a sign it hasnât been overly processed) and retains many of its good-for-you enzymes. Because itâs precious and expensive, save raw honey for when you can taste it front and center: on peanut butter toast, drizzled over a pound cake, by the spoonful before a run. You might notice a whiff of hay or notes of apricot, things like that. Use inexpensive clear and runny honey when youâre cooking or baking.