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.