2025 Fresh Harvest of Gelam Honey

Please Note: 

Our raw Gelam Honey is alive & buzzing 🐝🍯✨! Natural fermentation or slight leakage? Totally normal—it’s a sign of real, active honey 🌿🌟. Store upright in a cool place ❄️🏺 and enjoy nature’s golden goodness! 💛

Our raw Gelam Honey is alive, fresh, and unpasteurized—just as nature intended! Because it’s completely natural and unprocessed, it may remain active, causing slight fermentation, bubbles, or even occasional leakage from the jar. This is a good sign—it means your honey is full of beneficial enzymes, probiotics, and nutrients!

Rest assured, there’s nothing wrong with your honey—it’s simply thriving and doing what real, raw honey does best. We recommend storing it upright in a cool place to minimize any movement. Enjoy the pure, potent goodness of Gelam Honey, knowing you’re getting the finest quality, straight from the hive!

Thank you for choosing raw, living honey! 🍯✨

• Kind: Gelam Honey
• Type: Raw, Wild, Unpasteurized
• Source: Monofloral
• Bee: Giant Bee (Apis Dorsata)
• Taste: Bitter Sweet

Gelam Wild Bee Honey

Fortune Honey's wild Gelam Honey is monofloral honey produced by giant bees, (Apis dorsata).

The bees build hives on trees locally called Gelam, or Melaleuca cajuputi Powell.

Gelam is in the same family as the Australian tea tree, and it is renowned for its medicinal properties.

Fortune Honey's Gelam Honey is carefully harvested fresh in the shrubby vegetation of the coastal area in the east coast of Malaysia only for a limited time before Apis Dorsata further migrates to another exotic wild area.

Gelam Honey is much sought after for its beautiful unique essence.

About this item

• TASTE: "Bitter Sweet" Gelam Honey has a slightly bitter sweet taste. 

  Gelam Honey (also known as Melaleuca Honey) has a truly unique and captivating flavor profile that sets it apart from common honeys. Here’s how to describe its taste:

  Taste Profile:

  1. Rich & Earthy – Deep, woody undertones with a hint of herbal complexity, reminiscent of the Melaleuca (Gelam) tree's natural terroir.

  2. Slightly Bitter – A mild, pleasant bitterness (like dark caramel or herbal tea), balancing its sweetness.

  3. Smoky & Robust – Unlike light floral honeys, Gelam has an almost smoky, molasses-like depth.

  4. Less Cloying, More Complex – Not overly sweet; instead, it has a sophisticated, lingering aftertaste.

  Comparisons:

  ✔ Like a darker, wilder cousin of Manuka – but with more herbal notes.
  ✔ Similar to buckwheat or chestnut honey – but with a distinct Malaysian rainforest twist.

  Why It’s Special:

  This honey isn’t just sweet—it’s an adventure for the palate, loved by those who appreciate bold, natural flavors. Perfect for drizzling on strong cheeses, bitter greens, or even sipping in tea for a deep, restorative experience.

• Raw. Wild. Authentic. Rare. Pure. Unpasteurized.

• GELAM HONEY is a rare and precious monofloral honey that is only available in the Malaysian Gelam rainforest. A special melaleuca tree species with powerful  benefits contribute to distinctive organic nectar sources. It is made by the giant honey bee, Apis dorsata.

• CLEOPATRA’S BEAUTY SECRET Raw honey is a great natural skincare product that even the legendary Egyptian beauty Cleopatra used as part of her skin and hair care treatments to help keep her looking youthful. She loved to use honey on her face due to its purifying properties. Her most famous beauty secret was her ritual of bathing in milk and honey. Make your own by adding 2-3 cups of milk, and ½ cup of Gelam Honey, and 5 tablespoons almond oil to your bath water.

• COMPARE GELAM Gelam Honey has a high total level of phenolic content and concentration of flavonoids giving it more than the normal nutrition value than even Manuka Honey. Gelam Honey is packed with amino acids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. These physicochemical properties and abundant nutritional value make Gelam Honey a great choice to eat every day.

• USE GELAM HONEY INSTEAD OF SUGAR Gelam Honey is more natural and is better than highly refined white sugar. Gelam Honey contains a complex composition of carbohydrates that pack in more nutrients (amino acids, proteins, lipids, minerals and vitamins) than white sugar, a simple carb. Gelam Honey is higher in fructose than glucose, so since fructose is sweeter than glucose, you may be able to use a smaller amount of honey in your food or drink without sacrificing sweetness.

Our Gelam is "Raw Honey" "Unpasteurized Honey", "Natural Honey", "Pure Honey", and "Unfiltered Honey".

RAW: Our Gelam honey is "Raw" honey which is honey that comes directly from the hive and is minimally processed.  

UNPASTEURIZED: Our Gelam honey is "unpasteurized" honey which is honey that is unheated. By not heating, it retains all of its natural enzymes, nutrients, and health benefits. 

NATURAL: Our Gelam Honey is an "All-Natural" superfood. "Natural Honey" is honey that doesn't contain added color, artificial flavors, or synthetic substances...our honey has none of these. It's also made by bees, not in a factory. The Apis Dorsata are wild bees that make honey deep in the wild rainforest - they are not fed by humans. Nature provides them with medicinal exotic plants and flowers that the bees visit and use to produce their amazing honey that is among the highest in antioxidants and therefore the healthiest of all the honey on the planet.

PURE: Our Gelam honey is "Pure" honey which is honey that comes directly from the hive.  We do not add any preservatives, additives, or artificial ingredients, making it a "100% Pure Honey" product.

UNFILTERED: Our Gelam Honey is minimally processed, making it a an authentic product straight from the hive. Unlike most honey you'll find on the grocery shelves today, this is not commercially produced honey...and, it's even better than local honey because of the wide variety of high quality trees, plants, and flowers that the bees visit in the tropical rainforest.

IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTING Gelam Honey has natural antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that can help boost the immune system and fight off sickness. It can also help relieve sore throats and coughs.

HAIR AND SKIN CARE Gelam Honey is not only beneficial when ingested, but also when applied topically. It can be used as a natural face mask or hair mask to moisturize and nourish the skin and hair.

ETHICALLY SOURCED Gelam Honey is sustainably and ethically sourced from the Malaysian Gelam rainforest, ensuring that the environment and bee populations are not harmed in the process.

VERSATILE USAGE Gelam Honey can be used in a variety of ways, such as in teas, smoothies, baked goods, dressings, marinades, and more. Its unique flavor profile adds depth and dimension to any dish.

Overall, Gelam Honey is a premium honey that offers a multitude of health benefits and can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. Its rare and pure qualities make it a valuable addition to any pantry.

Net Weight: 11.46 oz (325 g)

INGREDIENTS: HONEY