• Kotagiri Sweet Honey 500g and 250g glass jars on a plain white studio background
  • Kotagiri Bitter Honey jar on a plain white studio background
  • Kotagiri Florea Honey jar on a plain white studio background
  • Kotagiri Ginger Honey jar on a plain white studio background
  • Kotagiri Pepper Honey jar on a plain white studio background
  • Kotagiri Cinnamon Honey jar on a plain white studio background
  • Kotagiri Honey with Dates jar on a plain white studio background
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  • Honey collector roped down a Nilgiris cliff face to cut wild comb
  • What is in Kotagiri Honey: raw forest honey
  • Kotagiri Honey versus other honey: source, processing and traceability
  • Why Purepicked chose Kotagiri Honey: genuinely wild-harvested, one ingredient, income stays local
  • Open beehive box with bees across the frames
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Aadhimalai

Kotagiri Honey

Kotagiri Honey

₹100.00(₹0.77 per gram)
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Flavour
Size
Wild-harvestedRaw honeyTraceableUnsweetenedTribal-produced
Clean

Wild-harvested by a tribal co-operative; no C4 sugar purity test on file.

Reviewed by PurePicked

Kotagiri Honey is forest honey harvested by tribal communities of the Nilgiris Biosphere, most of it taken from wild hives rather than managed apiary boxes. That's also the reason the colour, thickness and crystallisation shift from batch to batch, depending on what was flowering nearby that season — variation that is the honey behaving normally, not a defect.

Raw and unblended, it works as an everyday sweetener wherever honey is called for.

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Why We Like It

  • Genuinely wild-harvested by named tribal communities inside the Nilgiris Biosphere.
  • One ingredient, and the co-operative that gathers it is the one that sells it.
  • Colour and thickness shift with the season, which is what wild honey does rather than a fault.
  • The harvest income stays with the forest communities doing the collecting.
Ingredients

Raw Forest Honey

Single ingredient

Wild-harvested from Nilgiris Biosphere hives; no added sugar. Colour/texture vary by season.

Aadhimalai Kotagiri Honey versus other honeys
What to comparePurepickedRegular market honey
SourceWild forest hives, a single co-operative in the NilgirisApiary honey blended across mixed origins
ProcessingMinimal, collected and bottledOften heated and ultrafiltered, which removes the pollen
TraceabilityNamed tribal harvesters inside a named biosphereBought through aggregators, not traceable to a hive
AdditivesNoneFlavour or colour added in some honeys

Is It For You?

Good for

Refined-sugar-free diets

Those wanting to support indigenous farmer-owned supply chains

Avoid if

Children under 1 year (standard infant botulism risk for all honey, not brand-specific)

Anyone who wants a C4 sugar purity result behind their honey

How to use
01

Take a spoon plain or in warm water

02

Drizzle over breakfast, fruit or yoghurt

03

Stir into tea or use in dressings

What to look for in Honey?
01

Sugar syrup adulteration is the central problem in honey. Rice and corn syrup are not detectable by taste, and the water-drop test does not work.

02

Moisture matters. Above roughly 20% honey ferments. Genuine low-moisture honey is thick and slow to pour.

03

Crystallisation is normal and varies by floral source. It is not a sign of sugar and not a sign of spoilage.

04

Raw, unfiltered honey keeps its pollen. Heavy filtering and heating make honey clear and pretty while stripping that away.

05

A C4 sugar isotope test is the check that catches syrup adulteration. An organic certificate covers the beekeeping, not the syrup.