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There are many kinds of honey in Tenerife. Maybe the most original one is the thistle honey, unique in Europe and a tasty, mostly used to sweeten desserts or eaten with gofio. Another, different honey, with an intense, sweet small, is broom honey. There is also bugloss honey. This one is practically colourless until it crystallizes to a white, opaque colour. It comes from the flowers of the Teide National Park.
There is a wide range of honeys. The coastal ones made from the blooms of banana and avocados, and ones from the hills and mountains, made from chestnut or fennel. Next to the Wine Museum in El Sauzal, there is a Honey Museum (Casa de la Miel), which produces exceptional and genuine Tenerife honeys.
The palm tree honey is one of the most representative products of the Canary Islands. This is obtained after a cooking process of the sap of palm trees known as Guarapo. The process starts at night situating the recipients in the palm trees, and it ends in the morning collecting the guarapo, before the sun rises to avoid the product from fermenting. The colour of this honey is darker than the bee one. It is used as a raw material for traditional desserts.
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