Royal Hawaiian Organic Hawaiian Lehua Honey
Prized for its fragrance, delicate taste and light color, this honey is a local Hawaiian favorite.
This fine, tropical honey is produced by the Hawaiian Queen Company on the Big Island of Hawaii. Its thick texture is the product of a natural creaming process developed by this second generation, family-owned business. It is unfiltered, pure, 100% raw, Certified Organic Hawaiian honey.
Lehua Honey is gathered by bees from the lehua flower, which grows on the 'ohi'a tree (Metrosideros polymorpha), an indigenous Hawaiian species. Prized for its fragrance, delicate taste and light color, Lehua Honey can only be found three months a year. Its floral aroma and subtle palate with hints of butterscotch truly captures the essence of the islands. May you enjoy the unique flavors of Hawaii in this Certified Organic Lehua Honey. Aloha.
ABOUT OUR CARBON NEUTRAL CERTIFICATION
There is an enormous amount of energy used in the growing, packing and shipping of food in this country. An estimated 17 percent of the energy consumed in the United States goes into getting our food to market- over 100 billion gallons of oil per year. This is an alarming amount of greenhouse gasses emitted for each American meal, and they contribute to global warming. Tropical Traders Specialty Foods, LLC, which distributes the Royal Hawaiian Honey line, decided it could have a positive impact on climate change. In partnership with Carbonfund.org, it performed a product life-cycle CO2 analysis which determines a product?s carbon footprint. This means calculating how much energy was consumed in the production, shipping and distribution of all of the components that go into each and every jar of Royal Hawaiian Honey; including the extraction of silica from the ground to manufacture the glass jars, the production and printing of its label, the amount of energy used in bottling the honey, and the shipping of its products from the Big Island to markets as far away as New York City. Once this figure was determined, the energy used was off-set by investing in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Carbonfund.org describes carbon off-sets thus:
"Carbon offsetting is the act of reducing an equal amount of carbon somewhere else to counterbalance the carbon emissions from your energy-using activities (called your carbon footprint)."
By taking responsibility for its carbon footprint and neutralizing its emissions, the Royal Hawaiian Honey label is working within its industry to make a difference.
