Vegan Honey Simple Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is vegan honey made from? ›

Vegan Honey is made from plants, fruits, and roots. There are NO BEES involved in this process. We extracted the nectar and pollens from the plants ourselves. No Bees are harmed in the making of this process.

This vegan honey looks, tastes, drizzles, and drips just like real honey from bees, but it's cruelty-free and super yummy in drinks, on vegan fried chicken (and maybe waffles like my 5 minute vegan biscuit waffles!), desserts, and more.

Because honey is made by living bees, it is technically not vegan, so most vegans exclude it from their diet. You can try plant-based alternatives like agave, maple syrup, and date syrup.

Fake honey refers to a honey-like product that has been modified with flavours, fillers, dyes, and sugar. In fact, some fake 'honey' may not even contain any bee honey at all, instead being manufactured of a mix of glucose syrups, inverted sugar solutions (from refined sugar) or corn, cane or beet syrup.

A company called MeliBio has released a “molecularly identical” vegan honey called Mellody.

The product was accidentally developed in 1999 by Katie Sanchez while she was making apple jelly. The company was established in 2012, with a production facility in River Falls, Wisconsin. After being featured on Shark Tank in February 2016, sales quadrupled and the company moved production from Wisconsin to Texas.

In the strictest definition of the word, honey is not vegan. As the product of a living being –honeybees, though there are other some 20,000 bee species to be found around the world – honey falls into the same category of non-vegan food products as milk and eggs.

For most of us, that means not eating honey. Also, although it's not part of the official vegan definition, many of us consider ourselves environmentalists, and farming bees for their honey is detrimental to wild bee populations and therefore biodiversity of plant and animal life.

Most vegans choose not to consume honey or use honey-based products as they believe honey production exploits bees. However, some people believe raising honeybees is ethical as they help pollinate plants.

Some vegans see the mutual relationship between wasps and figs as animal exploitation and ultimately animal consumption. They, therefore, avoid figs entirely. Most vegans, however, consider figs to be vegan and consume them.

Do vegans eat peanut butter? ›

The bottom line. Most types of peanut butter are free of animal products and can be enjoyed as part of a vegan diet. However, some varieties are made in facilities that also process animal products or contain refined sugar that was produced using bone char or non-vegan ingredients like honey or fish oil.

Many vegans refer to Oreos as “accidentally vegan,” meaning they don't contain animal products — but they weren't created to be a specifically vegan treat. Oreos do not contain milk, eggs, or any other animal-derived products, so they are technically vegan in that sense. Plant-based cookies and cream lovers rejoice!

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Conventional honey lacks propolis and pollen, is stripped of nutrients through heating, contains additives like corn syrup or water, and has trace amounts of antibiotics and pesticides. You should avoid honey from big box stores like Costco or Walmart or chain pharmacies like Walgreens or CVS.

So it is important that you are choosing real honey when you visit your local grocery store and avoiding fake honey. The fact is that the odds the honey in your cabinet at home is fake honey is about 76%.

Honey is produced from bees (Yes, insects are considered animals) and therefore is not a vegan product. According to PETA, honey is the energy source for bees and they would starve without it, especially during winter and poor weather conditions. If honey is not a vegan food, then why do many vegans eat honey?

Whether to eat honey is a contentious issue. It's made by bees, and therefore not plant-based; however many plant-based eaters choose to include it in their diet. We believe what you eat is a personal choice. We do include honey in some of our recipes, and typically include alternatives.

Yes, pure maple syrup that's made without any additives is completely vegan. Make sure to check the label of the bottle to confirm that it's certified as vegan, as some lower-quality versions will be mixed with non-vegan ingredients like honey or refined sugar.