All types of honey make for good food. You can get the regular honey bottled and available on shelves of retailers, raw honey (natural honey) is usually available at herbal shops or direct from beekeepers and organic honey is available from delicatessen cafés and organic farm stalls.
Honey is a treat. Believe it or not but it is used by tea lovers, pizza makers and even beer makers. Honey is served on waffles, at coffee shops, pancakes and forms the base for many basting sauces or marinades.
Bee pollen is a major source of protein. Beekeepers collect honey bee pollen during the summer in order to feed it back to the bee colony in the winter season. People are also able to eat bee pollen.
Comb honey is a unique treat. It is when the raw honey has not been extracted using a honey extractor or filtering system to remove the honey from the beeswax comb it is stored in. Some people prefer to eat honey inside the honeycomb and experience the chewy texture of liquid honey and sticky beeswax. Generally, comb honey is also more expensive than that of bottled honey.
Honey wine is well known around the world as mead. There are specialist mead makers that bottle and sell mead as their primary business. The local South African traditions also include the use of ‘iqhilika’ by the Xhosa in ancestral rituals. A honey beer is produced by fermenting the honey, much like rice wine, over a number of days. Monks in monasteries used mead as their staple intake of fluids in the middle ages. It was much more hygienic than the water at the time.