DISTRIBUTION: Eastern, Central and Western Europe: France // Mediterranean Basin: Italy // North America: USA // Australia (Tasmania)
SPECIES: Carrot – Daucus carota
INTENSITY ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧
COLOUR: Brown
TEXTURE: Creamy
SMELL / AROMA: Fructată
Cultivated carrot is a subspecies (sativus) of the wild carrot – Daucus carota. It is a vegetable cultivated all over the planet, with many varieties and as many colours.
Despite the carrot’s worldwide popularity as a staple food, carrot blossom honey is rare. Carrot is a biennial plant, meaning it needs two growing seasons to complete its life cycle. This means that the carrot only flowers in the second year after cultivation. Carrots planted for seed are on much smaller areas than carrots grown for root consumption.
In Europe, carrot honey is produced in France. In North America, it is mainly sourced in Oregon, which produces approximately 45% of the world’s carrot seed.
Carrot honey has a toffee-like smell and taste. It is a very pleasant, creamy honey of medium intensity. It is also sweeter than most honey varietals.
Despite the carrot’s worldwide popularity as a staple food, carrot blossom honey is rare. Carrot is a biennial plant, meaning it needs two growing seasons to complete its life cycle. This means that the carrot only flowers in the second year after cultivation. Carrots planted for seed are on much smaller areas than carrots grown for root consumption.
In Europe, carrot honey is produced in France. In North America, it is mainly sourced in Oregon, which produces approximately 45% of the world’s carrot seed.
Carrot honey has a toffee-like smell and taste. It is a very pleasant, creamy honey of medium intensity. It is also sweeter than most honey varietals.
