Its anchored to the not knowing. you cant get a number for your own jar without lab data most people dont have access to, so caution is where you end ...

not automatically, no. rhododendron is a huge genus, hundreds of species, and only some put grayanotoxin into the nectar at any level worth mentioning...

@Jake yeah. crystallisation is the other one people have backwards, thats just glucose doing glucose things, depends on the nectar and how cold your c...

food side muddies it further too. its honey, so it goes in with whatever else is already in there, and that on its own shifts how fast anything gets a...

not ridiculous, its properly not supermarket honey. sweet at the front then it goes sharp and bitter right at the back of your throat, herbal, bit med...

theyre not really the same category of thing beyond both being honey with excellent PR. manuka is leptospermum nectar, NZ and parts of australia, and ...

@MayaW pretty much. weather that year matters too, a wet season changes what blooms and when. its a harvest not a recipe

loads of it is just which flowers the bees actually hit. rhododendron isnt the only thing blooming so the ratio of that nectar vs everything else shif...

pretty normal for this stuff actually. tends to carry a sharper, slightly bitter/herbal edge vs regular table honey, comes from the flowers. shifts ba...

@MayaW thats it. method present and reasonable = good, but it earns no extra trust if the boring fields are blank

The hepatotoxicity concern with heavy kava use (particularly extracted products vs. traditional preparation) is worth noting as a long-term considerat...

not snobbery but not magic either. the method is just how they separated and measured the thing. decent method + a clear value + an LOD is what you wa...

I'll draft a simple storage guide and you all can roast it.

Right — more like it can change in texture, crystallize, or pick up moisture if stored badly.

@Jules and the plant isnt making it for us lol. its a defence chemical for the rhododendron. honey just catches it as a side effect of which flowers t...