Dried honey enriched with volatile honey compounds

Abstract

A process for releasing a volatile honey components form a liquid honey is described wherein water is added to honey, extracting the volatile component and optionally adding the honey component to dried honey. The volatile honey product obtained by the process can be used in food and pharmaceutical products. The invention relates to a process for treating honey comprising the steps of adding water to the liquid honey; releasing a volatile honey component from the liquid honey by evaporation to product a residual partially dried honey; and collecting the volatile honey component, the volatile honey component may be then added to dried honey solids to improve the flavor and aroma or the volatile honey component can be added to food or medicaments. The prior art, teaches making a dried honey solids adding water to honey and then freeze drying, however in this process the volatile components are lost and the prior art teaches a process for producing solid honey wherein pure honey is subjected to dehydration in a vacuum evaporator, there is no suggestion in the prior art to add water to liquid honey and then distill the honey to release the volatiles from the distillation or evaporator which is collected and then added directly to foods or medicaments or added back to a dried honey.