> Is there any way to tell what flowers HONEY comes from, other than looking at the pollen?


When I saw this all I could think of was mass spec and honey varietals. A quick lit search provided numerous hits. For example, a 2010 Greek study in Food Chemistry assessing volatile aromatics in 77 "unifloral" honey samples found that:


"Analyses revealed an excellent separation between honey samples according to their botanical origin with the percentage of misclassification to be as low as 1.3%."


It's a good place to start, anyway. The research gate link is:


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223429287_Botanical_discrimination_and_classification_of_honey_samples_applying_gas_chromatographymass_spectrometry_fingerprint_of_headspace_volatile_compounds


Cheers.


S


Skillman, NJ

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