Forest Post

Honey from Stingless Bees

₹310.00(₹1.07 per gram)

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Size 135g

Single ingredientWild-harvestedStingless beeRawZero additivesSingle-origin

Clean

No C4 sugar or NMR purity test on file

Reviewed by PurePicked

Honey from stingless bees — Tetragonula species, tiny native bees that nest in tree hollows rather than the open combs of a common honeybee. A stingless colony yields only a fraction of a regular hive, sometimes just a few hundred grams a year. The honey is thinner, tangier and more sour than what most people know as honey, and across South India it has long been treated as the more valuable of the two.

Gathered by Adivasi collectives in the Western Ghats, where the honey and wax come out of wild forest hives rather than managed apiaries.

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Why We Like It

Genuinely wild-harvested by Adivasi honey hunters, with Keystone Foundation's sustainability work behind it.
A named native bee species, Tetragonula, rather than a generic 'pure honey' line.
One ingredient, and a single forest as the origin.
The sour, thin character is the honey being itself rather than being corrected to look like shelf honey.

Ingredients

Stingless bee honey

Single ingredient

The entire product. Nothing added, nothing blended in, nothing cooked out.

Tetragonula species

Named bee

Not the Apis honeybee behind almost all shelf honey, which is why this one is thinner and more sour.

Forest Post Honey from Stingless Bees versus other honeys

What to compare	Purepicked	Other honeys
Bee	Tetragonula, a named native stingless species	Almost always the Apis honeybee
Source	Wild hives in a named Western Ghats forest, hand gathered	Managed apiaries, often migratory and blended across regions
Producer	Adivasi collectives who own the harvest	A commercial packer buying from aggregators
Texture and taste	Thin, tangy, sour-sweet	Thick and uniformly sweet

Is It For You?

Good for

Anyone who wants a single-origin, single-species honey

Those who like a sour, tangy honey taken neat

Buyers supporting Adivasi forest-rights livelihoods

Avoid if

Infants under 12 months

Anyone expecting a thick, uniformly sweet honey

Anyone needing a lab-confirmed purity test on file before purchase

How to use

Take it neat by the spoon — the sour tang is the character and heat flattens it

Stir into warm, not hot, water with lime first thing in the morning

Drizzle over curd, cut fruit or a bowl of poha

Use it where you would reach for a squeeze of lime as much as where you would reach for honey

Finish a plate of appam or a cheese board with it rather than baking with it

What to look for in Honey?

A C4 sugar or NMR test is the check that catches syrup adulteration — Indian testing has repeatedly found major brands passing simpler screens and failing NMR.

Wild honey varies batch to batch in colour, thickness and crystallisation depending on the season's flowering.

Stingless bee honey is higher in moisture, more sour, and needs cooler storage than regular honey.

Never give honey of any kind to a child under 12 months.