Honey with a sour taste when heated

by Annerie Laurens
(Mokopane, Limpopo, South Africa)

Hi, so I recently purchased honey - and it is fresh - about a week old at most!
I ate some of the honey and it was sweet and delicious, as honey should be, but then I added it to my tea and it was just off!
Is this possible????

I noticed that there was still some wax in the honey as well, when I added it to my tea, small white wax specks where floating on top.
Is the sour taste from the wax or has the honey gone off?
I can't imagine this beeing (;D) the case though, since it really isn't old.

Is the honey still fresh for consumption? I'm to scared to use it in food, since it might do the same thing to the food - and it really isn't a nice sour taste it's like a bitter-sour taste (very hard to explain).


Thank you
Annerie

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May 10, 2024
Happens to me too!
by: Anonymous

I'm not sure what triggers that sourness, since it's been hit or miss with my teas with honey.
I'm drinking a cup now with sour-tasting honey (which prompted me to google "honey turns my tea sour", which led me here). I had some on watermelon just before my tea and it definitely wasn't sour so I doubt it's gone bad in any way. I thought honey didn't go bad anyway.

Current honey I'm using is unfiltered. Can't say if other honeys I've had that caused the same issue were as well, but I'll start paying attention to that. The sourness kind of reminds me like when you put a little bit of lemon in hot water.

May 19, 2018
royal jelly
by: Anonymous

Sounds like you are tasting Royal Jelly.

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