{"id":3893,"date":"2022-12-31T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beekeepingfornewbies.com\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2022-12-31T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:39:44","slug":"comb-honey-is-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beekeepingfornewbies.com\/comb-honey-is-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Comb Honey So Expensive?
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When we started beekeeping, I began paying close attention to honey prices in our local store. I noticed that comb honey was quite expensive relative to liquid honey in a jar. As a more experienced beekeeper, I’ve learned why comb honey sells at a premium price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comb honey (or honeycomb) is more expensive than liquid honey due to its higher production costs (one-time use of beeswax, additional labor for extraction, and increased packaging costs). Also, increasing consumer demand raises prices for raw honey (such as comb honey) vs. processed, liquid honey while high volumes of imported honey help keep the price of liquid honey down.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article, we will look at the price of comb honey vs. liquid honey and delve into the details of why comb honey is relatively so expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comb honey is \u201choney presented in its original comb or portions thereof.\u201d<\/strong>[1]<\/a> It is the purest form of “raw honey” <\/strong>which the National Honey Board defines as \u201choney as it exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling or straining without adding heat.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Liquid honey in a jar may be raw or processed honey.<\/strong> Most liquid honey is processed to facilitate packaging and standardize its appearance for marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See our article What Is Raw Honey? (Besides Delicious!)<\/a><\/strong> for more information about the differences between raw honey and processed honey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Comb honey is cut from the beehive frame and sold without processing. It contains any wax, pollen, propolis, and bee parts that the colony may have enclosed with the honey. Honeycomb is precisely the way the bees made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A little bit on terminology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consider the word “honeycomb” in context. In this article, comb honey and honeycomb both refer to a form of honey delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In beekeeping terms, honeycomb is also the wax mass of hexagonal cells built by bees to store brood, pollen, nectar, and honey. See our article What Is Honeycomb? (Talking Beeswax)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nWhat is Comb Honey?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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