In an effort to help consumers as well as honey professionals find the right words, the center developed a new “Honey Flavor and Aroma Wheel,” a tool to build a universal honey vocabulary.

Honey can produce a multitude of specific flavors.Sure, it’s sweet, but honey can produce a multitude of specific flavors. In fact, UC Davis researchers have come up with 99 descriptors — think root ...

In order to help consumers identify those flavors, an institute in Davis will develop a honey tasting and aroma wheel. Researchers say the tool will describe the different factors that influence ...

In order to help consumers identify those flavors, an institute in Davis will develop a honey tasting and aroma wheel. Researchers say the tool will describe the different factors that influence ...

In order to help consumers identify those flavors, an institute in Davis will develop a honey tasting and aroma wheel. Researchers say the tool will describe the different factors that influence ...

In order to help consumers identify those flavors, an institute in Davis will develop a honey tasting and aroma wheel. Researchers say the tool will describe the different factors that influence ...

According to the wheel, a herbaceous honey could be classified as woody or resinous, and a resinous flavor, in turn, could be reminiscent of cedar or oak.