• Tulsi leaves steeped and suspended at depth in amber forest honey in a clear glass jar, a fresh tulsi sprig on the terracotta beside it
  • Spiced honey with tulsi served in a small unglazed terracotta bowl, fresh tulsi sprig and dried leaves alongside
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Forest Post

Spiced Honey - Tulasi

Spiced Honey - Tulasi

₹400.00(₹1.33 per gram)
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Wild-harvested from forest hives by Adivasi honey hunters (brand model)Non-timber forest produce gathered under community forest rightsKeystone Foundation lineage includes long-running work on sustainable honey harvesting
  • Non-timber forest produce gathered under community forest rights
  • Wild-harvested from forest hives
  • Made by Adivasi women's collectives across eight villages in the Chalakudy, Periyar and Karuvannur river basins, central Kerala (Western Ghats)
Caution

Caution — see red flags. Forest Post's supply chain is genuinely traceable, but ingredient panels and lab documentation are not published for this SKU.

Reviewed by PurePicked

Forest honey infused with tulasi, from the Adivasi women's collectives Forest Post works with in central Kerala. Tulasi — holy basil — is among the most widely used plants in Indian domestic medicine, taken for coughs and colds far more often than it is used as a culinary herb, and pairing it with honey is a preparation that exists in kitchens rather than in product ranges. The infusion carries a clove-like, slightly peppery note against the honey's sweetness. Used stirred into warm water, taken by the spoon, or added to tea. One thing worth handling carefully in the listing copy: honey-and-tulasi preparations attract therapeutic claims about immunity and respiratory relief, and FSSAI restricts medicinal claims on food labels, so this should be described as a traditional preparation rather than a remedy. Unverified: the infusion method, the tulasi proportion, and any honey purity result. Not for infants under twelve months, as with any honey regardless of source.

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Why We Like It

  • Genuinely wild-harvested by Adivasi honey hunters, with Keystone Foundation's sustainability work behind it.
  • Native and stingless bee species that commercial honey almost never reaches.
  • A C4 sugar or NMR purity test is the one thing we would want before treating any of these as fully documented.
Nutrition factsPer 100g

Nutrition panel not published by Forest Post — request the back-of-pack panel before publishing

This vs regular market honey
What to comparePurepickedRegular honey
Harvest methodWild forest hives, traditional hand harvestUsually apiary-managed, often migratory
ProducerAdivasi collective, community-ownedCommercial packer
Purity testingNot published — flagged as the key gapVaries; adulteration widely documented in India

Is It For You?

Good for

Those wanting genuinely wild-harvested rather than apiary honey

Supporting Adivasi forest-rights livelihoods

Avoid if

Infants under 12 months

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

How to use
01

Direct by the spoon, or stirred into warm water or tea

02

Drizzle over food rather than cooking at high heat

03

Store cool and dry; crystallisation is reversible in a warm water bath

What to look for in Honey?
01

Insist on a C4 sugar or NMR purity result before trusting any honey purity claim, from any brand — Indian testing has repeatedly found major brands failing NMR while passing simpler screens.

02

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

03

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

04

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