Allen, you said:

>I can understand that in a region where honey is dark and high in
solids, .....

>However, where the local honey is known to be white and low in solids
and slow granulating....

I know in a later post you qualified the AND did not mean EQUALS, but still the impression is there that dark is higher in solids, and that white has less solids and is slower to granulate.

Reading my Hive and Honeybee about colour in honey does not indicate that (or contraindicate).  It merely says that colour is a function of optical density.   But it does give a table for mineral constituents of honey (from Schuette in the 1930's) that is done for both light and dark honey, and dark honeys are much richer in all the minerals.   Most of the minerals would be in soluble form, so would not really be "solids", but they would affect optical density (and maybe the need to defecate, I don't know).

As far as granulation goes,  I think it is pretty well known that the tendency of a honey to granulate has to do with the ratio of glucose and fructose in the honey, and I don't know what relation colour has there.  I do know that buckwheat honey is very resistant to granulation (despite its colour).  I had some splits a few years ago  that were made before buckwheat flowered and stored quite a lot in the second brood box and wintered on it.  They appeared to do excellently on it.

Stan

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