Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia occupying parts of the Malay Peninsula and the island of Borneo.
Malaysia is within the equatorial region, where a tropical rainforest climate is apparent all year round.
Malaysia has tropical weather all year round however due to its proximity to water the climate is often quite humid.
Despite this, the weather is never too hot and temperatures range from a mild 20°C to 30°C average throughout the year.
From such an exotic country flora could not make an exception. Two thirds of Malaysia are covered in forest, with some believed to be 130 million years old.
There are around 14,500 species of flowering plants and trees. Besides rainforests, there are over 1,425 km2 of mangroves in Malaysia, and a large amount of peat forest.
At higher altitudes, oaks, chestnuts, and rhododendrons replace dipterocarps.
There are an estimated 8,500 species of vascular plants in Peninsular Malaysia, with another 15,000 in the East.
The forests of East Malaysia are estimated to be the habitat of around 2,000 tree species, and are one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, with 240 different species of trees every hectare.
Gelam Honey, Kelulut Honey from different places like Hitam or Putih, Pineapple Honey also known as Nenas Madu, Durian Honey, and other forest Honeys known as Hutan Honey or Jungle Honey, commercialized under specific brands such as Pucuk Daun Honey and Ee Feng Gu Honey, or some Tropical Honey produced in the deep rainforest of the region Borneo, especially from the tree Acacia Mangium, known as Borneo Honey.
And there are also some common Honeys such as Acacia which is different to the well-known European Acacia Honey, longan, rubber tree or sourwood Honeys.
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One of the most important ones both popular and highly medicinal is Tualang Honey, it’s wild polyfloral Honey produced by the giant bee Apis dorsata in huge combs hanging in open space,
up on the branches of a very tall tree.
Harvesting this Honey is known as Honey hunting, and it does look like a robbery.
Apis dorsata bees produce a lot of Honey, at one Honey hunting the harvest can be of 140kg.
Tualang Honey has numerous health benefits such as:
Antibacterial effects
Antioxidant
Anti-inflammatory
Antidiabetic
Antiproliferative activities
Wound healing properties
It also helps in cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and many more.
This Honey also called Cajeput Honey or Tea tree Honey.
It is produced by Apis dorsata from some species of trees in Melaleuca genus, specially from the tree called Melaleuca cajuputi also known as Melaleuca leucadendra.
Gelam Honey is heavy bodied and has a slight pungent taste. Recent studies have reported that it possesses a notably high calcium content and has a high level of antibacterial and antifungal properties. It has also been found to kill liver cancer cells, exhibiting selective cytotoxicity, anti-angiogenic, cytotoxic, and anti-proliferative properties.
Pineapple Honey is amber in colour, mildly sweet and has a slight sour taste similar to the pineapple fruit. It is produced by Apis mellifera bees.
Pineapple Honey was found to contain an exceptionally high level of iron content, its useful to treat Iron-deficiency anemia, it also helps to treat cough symptoms and has anti-inflammatory properties.
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For those who living in Asia, durian fruit is nothing new. It has the stinkiest, most horrible smell in the world but durian Honey is not stinky, this is the first and the most important thing to know when it comes to durian Honey.
The fruit’s smell has been described as decaying onion-like, rotten eggs or like fried shallots, however, in durian Honey there isn’t a slightest hint of it.
Durian Honey is made by the giant Apis dorsata bees, which pollinate the tree durian kutejensis. They make an amber Honey, a very pleasant and smooth one, with a faint bitter after-taste, it has antibacterial effects and help healing wounds.
Boreno Honey is a polyfloral Honey produced locally by Apis cerana, smaller sized local bees from the Sabah Rural Development Corporation Apiary in Kudat, East Malaysia.
The bees collect the nectar mainly from the Forest mangrove or Mangium tree or Acacia mangium trees and flowers.
It’s light amber in colour and has a very high ascorbic acid content probably the highest in all Malaysian honeys.
It’s also called trigona Honey, a polyfloral Honey produced by a stingless bee, Geniotrigona thoracica, a very small bee of 3 to 5 mm in comparison to Apis dorsata of 20 mm, which produces maximum 500 g of Honey per year in so-called pots, inside cavities.
This type of Honey has a higher water content around 25% compared to only 18% in floral Honeys. When it is not fresh it has a slightly sour taste, due to fermentation, the sweet-sour, fruity-scented Kelulut Honey, contains a lot more vitamins, minerals, and medicinal properties compare to many other similar types of Honey.
Scientists say that this fermentation increases its antioxidant properties.
Also considered a medicinal Honey, it has numerous health effects and benefits, it is antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-aging and overall, very famous for its medicinal properties.
We tried to explain most of the famous local Honeys in Malaysia that is known to the world, of course there are many more types of Honeys in Malaysia that is totally local and the production is very low, so we did not mention them.
Probably like everywhere else in the world only 20 t0 30% of Honeys in the market are genuine, pure Honey.
The other 70 to 80% of the Malaysian Honey in the market is either adulterated or synthetic.
Some dishonest locals can also sell you fake Honey. There were lots if cases reported of fake Kelulut Honey especially.
So, if you are going to purchase Malaysian Honeys, try well-known companies with all the necessary certificates from authorities and proper analysis.
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