About HoneyHQ
What HoneyHQ is, what it deliberately is not, and who is behind it.
The idea
Honey is downstream of everything else. A honey tastes of resin because chestnut nectar carries what it carries; it stays liquid because of a sugar ratio set by the plant; it exists at all because one kind of bee overwinters as a colony and needs feeding through the cold. Describing honey without the plants and the bees is describing the product and skipping the cause.
So the site is built around one spine — plant, then bee, then honey, then flavour — and the bee and plant sections are first-class rather than context. There are currently 265 honey types, 110 bee species and groups, 298 nectar plants, 208 guides and 177 answered questions, all cross-linked in both directions.
What it is not
- Not a shop. Nothing is sold here, and there are no affiliate links.
- Not built around brands. Honey entries carry no brand, no price and no seller, and the catalogue has no place to put one. That is built into how the site is made rather than left to a policy, so it cannot drift.
- Not a review site. No scores, no rankings, no "best honey of 2026". The tools filter and compare; they do not recommend.
- Not medical advice. The health section describes what the evidence supports and where it stops.
How it is made
Every entry is checked for completeness and consistency before anything is published, so an incomplete one never reaches a page. Every claim carries an evidence tier, and the strongest two tiers must also state what they are not claiming. Every physical figure is a range, because a single number would assert a precision nobody has. Where something is unknown, the page says so rather than leaving a gap.
Who
HoneyHQ is operated by HEKNO Ltd, and is part of a family of reference sites built to the same standards — CoffeeHQ, TeaHQ, ChocolateHQ and others.
Current status
HoneyHQ is a working reference that grows as the evidence does, not a finished one. Some subjects — beekeeping practice and mead among them — have been researched but are not yet published as sections, because a page with too little on it helps no one.
See the editorial policy for how evidence is handled, and sources and evidence for what is cited.