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천연 생 메밀 꿀 - 1kg
$38.50 CAD
$3.85/100 g🇨🇦 Canada: free over $75 CAD; under that, Canada Post / UPS flat $12–$20. Ships from Concord, ON.
🇺🇸 USA: free over $50 USD, shipped from our Utah warehouse.
Shipping to the US? We are a Canadian business but your card is charged in USD at the day’s rate. Some banks add a small foreign-transaction fee (usually under $1). That one’s your bank’s, not ours.
Ingredients
100% Canadian Pure Buckwheat Honey.
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Single-source, never blended
Lab-tested every harvest
No use of antibiotics
Pesticide free
Flavor Profile
Dark as strong coffee and just as bold: deep molasses, toffee, and a malty finish that lingers. This is the honey people mean when they say honey should taste like something. Reviewers call it “the one you can actually taste in your tea.”
At its best against big flavours: strong black tea, dark rye and sourdough, aged cheese, glazes and marinades, or stirred into winter oatmeal. Not the mild table honey. The one you reach for on purpose.
Ingredients
100% Canadian Pure Buckwheat Honey.
Texture & What to Expect
It pours dark, thick, and liquid : closer to molasses than to the pale table honey most people know. That deep mahogany colour is the buckwheat itself, not caramel or additives: raw, unheated, unfiltered, exactly as it left the comb.
Over time raw honey can begin to granulate. That’s a sign it’s real, not a fault. If yours firms up, stand the jar in warm water for a few minutes and it loosens right back to a pour. And because it’s a single annual harvest , the depth shifts a little year to year, so your jar is unique to this season.
Because nothing is filtered out, you may spot fine traces of beeswax, pollen and propolis : that’s not sediment, it’s the hive. And because it never gets heated, the natural enzymes stay intact instead of being cooked off.
Lab Results & Certifications
Every harvest goes to an independent laboratory and comes back non-detected, and we publish it. A full COA ships with every product.
- Antibiotics, pesticides, glyphosate: non-detected
- Certified Kosher for Passover · CFIA SFCR
- BPA-free packaging · gluten-free
Kosher-certified · COR 902Certified by the Kashruth Council of Canada (COR), Canada’s largest kosher agency, and Kosher for Passover.
Where it comes from
Buckwheat honey gets its colour and character from a single crop: bees working fields of buckwheat blossom, and nothing else in the jar.
The flowers themselves are white. It’s the nectar that runs dark, and that’s where the colour comes from, not from any processing. We put the hives in the middle of large buckwheat fields rather than at the edges, which is why ours pours darker than most buckwheat honey you’ll find.
Single-source and never blended. From organic buckwheat fields in Northern Ontario, the same family operation as our Wildflower, three generations since the 1970s.
What Independent Research Says
Published findings on buckwheat honey as a food, from independent researchers, not from us. We sell honey, not medicine.
A University of Illinois study (J. Agric. Food Chem., 2003) found buckwheat honey taken with tea raised antioxidant levels in participants, and a later review of honey research put buckwheat at the top of the range for antioxidant content. That’s what the colour is telling you: the polyphenols that make it near-black are the same ones being measured.
If you came here from Manuka: published comparisons have measured buckwheat honey’s antimicrobial activity at or above Manuka’s in some assays. Manuka has a rating system (MGO) and buckwheat doesn’t, so there’s no like-for-like number to quote, but the research doesn’t put buckwheat a tier below.
A trial published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine compared honey against an over-the-counter cough suppressant and found honey did better on nighttime cough severity and frequency. It used buckwheat honey specifically, which is why it keeps coming up.
This is research about buckwheat honey generally, not a claim about what this jar will do for you, and not medical advice. Never give honey to a child under 12 months.
How it Ships
Every glass jar is wrapped and cushioned in an inflatable bubble airbag. “Packed with care” shows up in our reviews for a reason.
Order here and you get the most recent harvest, straight from us rather than stock sitting in a warehouse.
- Canada: free over $75 to every province except Newfoundland & Labrador; a flat $12–$20 under that, and most orders arrive in 1–7 days. Full details →
- USA: yes: retail orders ship from our Utah warehouse, free over US$50. (Wholesale orders are temporarily paused while customs rules settle.) Full details →
- Japan: yes: via Yamato (about 1–2 weeks) or faster by UPS; Japanese customs cap honey at 10 kg per order, addressed to a person. Full details →
- Korea: discounted rates with air departures twice a week, free over $100 CAD; customs cap honey at 5 kg and need your personal clearance code (개인통관번호). Full details →
- Everywhere else: discounted UPS rates to most countries; we’ll email you if a destination has any customs snag. Full details →
15 kg bulk pails ship at a flat rate (not free shipping).
Questions (7)
Is it pasteurized?
No. Unpasteurized and never heated above the natural temperature of a beehive. Yours arrives exactly as it left the hive.
Why is my honey so dark? Is something wrong?
Nothing’s wrong. Buckwheat honey is naturally near-black. The deep colour comes straight from the buckwheat flower, not from processing.
What does “single-source” mean?
Every jar comes from one buckwheat harvest and one family operation, never blended with honey from other locations or producers.
Is the container BPA-free? Is the honey gluten-free?
Yes to both. The packaging is BPA-free, and honey is naturally gluten-free.
Will my jar look different from my last one?
It might, and that’s a good sign. It’s a single annual harvest, so colour and thickness shift a little year to year.
Is buckwheat related to wheat? Is it gluten-free?
No relation. Despite the name, buckwheat isn’t a grass or a grain at all. It’s related to sorrel, knotweed and rhubarb, so it’s naturally gluten-free.
Is honey safe for babies?
No. Never give honey to a child under 12 months, raw or pasteurized. That’s a standard infant-botulism precaution and it applies to all honey, from every producer.
천연 생 메밀 꿀 - 1kg
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