Honey
About the ingredient honey. Including 2,140 recipes with honey, nutrition data, where it's found, and video.
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What is honey?
The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, as a spread on breads, and as an addition to various beverages such as tea and as a sweetener in some commercial beverages.
According to international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance...this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners". Honey barbecue and honey mustard are common and popular sauce flavours.
Honey is the main ingredient in the alcoholic beverage mead , which is also known as "honey wine" or "honey beer". Historically, the ferment for mead was honey's naturally occurring yeast. Honey is also used as an adjunct in beer
As with all nutritive sweeteners, honey is mostly sugars and contains only trace amounts of vitamins or minerals.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup (339g)Where found
Honey is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Honey is a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much does honey weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | 339 grams |
| 1 tbsp | 21 grams |
| 1 packet (0.5 oz) | 14 grams |
Related
Sweets
| In Chinese: | 蜂蜜 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | miel | |
| en español: | miel |
Recipes using honey
There are 2140 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Augusta's Chilled Tomato Soup with Basil Cream
Augusta's Chilled Tomato Soup with Basil Cream recipe
Honey-Sesame Roasted Cocktail Wieners
Kick those Little Smokies up a notch with an Asian-inspired Honey-Sesame glaze. Oven-roasting brings it together for sweet-salty cocktail sausage bites that your holiday guests will love.
Roasted Korean Sticky Cocktail Sausages
These Korean sticky cocktail sausages are a delicious and easy-to-make appetizer that combines sweet and gently spicy flavors with the salty taste of sausages.
Asian Salad Nicoise
This Nicoise Salad is a beautiful play off its French counterpart. It keeps the traditional string beans, potatoes, boiled eggs and tuna, but it adds an Asian inspired dressing that elevates this salad to the next level. By changing the usual white potatoes to sweet potatoes, it becomes a healthier version of the recipe. Sweet potatoes provide more vitamins and minerals than regular potatoes and they have fewer calories. Add in the Omega-3 benefits in the tuna, the protein of the eggs, and fibre-packed beans, and you have got a power packed lunch that tastes like a million dollars. This recipe will certainly be singing to your taste buds tuna.
Country Style Buttermilk Pancakes with Berry Sauce
Country Style Buttermilk Pancakes with Berry Sauce recipe
Pan-Fried Monkfish with Bunya Nut Hash, Rocket & Madamia Nut Pesto
Pan-fried monkfish, served with bunya nut hash, rocket and macadamia nut pesto
Banana Chocolate Whole Wheat Bread
This banana bread satisfy your sweet tooth and the chocolate cravings at the same time.
Frozen Vanilla Custard Ice Cream
This delicious treat can easily be made at home. You can change up the flavor by adding different extracts or add-ins like cookie crumbles, fruit, chopped nuts, candy, etc.---the possibilities are endless.
