Just the Regular, Please: Common Honey Flavors in Southern California

Did you know that there are as many variations of honey flavor as there are flowering plants that honeybees visit? In fact, honey can have variations as distinctive as wine, with factors like weather, climate, soil, season and type of flower affecting the flavor and color. Even honey from the same hive can have drastic differences in flavor from season to season.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recognizes seven distinct colors of honey and measures it by using the Pfund color grading system. To understand this scale and how it works seems to require several advanced degrees, and really, as a consumer it just helps to know that honey can range in color from colorless or “white” to “dark amber,” and often the strength of flavor corresponds to the strength of color.

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