The broadest and most common way of classifying honey consists of differentiating the types according to the substrate that bees collect and transform. In that regard, we talk about floral honey and honeydew honey. While their nutritional profile is similar, each type of honey has its own characteristics:
Blossom honey (or floral honey): Bees collect flower sap to make honey. It is called monofloral if it contains between 45 and 70% of the pollen of a single type of flower, or polyfloral if it is made from the nectar of different types of flowers. You can find the characteristics of the most widely consumed monofloral honeys in the table below.
Honeydew honey: Bees collect the non-floral secretions of plants or the products excreted by certain insects that feed on plant sap, making honey from these substrates. Forest honey is one such example, with a dark color, a malty aroma, and a sweet taste with salty notes.