Honeycomb

What Is Honeycomb?

Honeycomb is the natural wax structure bees create inside the hive. Worker bees build its characteristic hexagonal cells, fill them with honey and seal the raw honey beneath a thin layer of beeswax.

Because the honey remains inside the cells in which the bees stored it, fresh honeycomb offers one of the simplest ways to enjoy honey directly from the hive. Both the honey and the natural beeswax are edible.

Single-Origin Hungarian Acacia Honeycomb

All of our honeycomb is made from Hungarian acacia honey, harvested near Ásotthalom on the Southern Great Hungarian Plain by beekeeper László Váraljai of Bivalyos Tanya.

László keeps his hives on his own land beside extensive acacia woodland, meadows and a small lake, providing a natural water source for the bees. His acacia forest extends through the area surrounding the apiary, giving him exceptional knowledge of the landscape in which the bees forage and helping provide clear provenance for the finished honeycomb.

This honeycomb also sits within our wider single origin honey collection, which brings together honeys selected for clear provenance and distinctive floral character, including László’s acacia, linden, chestnut and hawthorn honeys alongside certified organic monofloral honeys from Transylvania.

Personally Selected by Best of Hungary

László Váraljai was one of the first producers founder Monika Gyenes began working with when Best of Hungary was established.

Monika visits László and the apiary in Hungary each year to taste the new honey harvest and remains in regular contact with him throughout the season. This long-standing relationship gives us first-hand knowledge of the beekeeper, the landscape and the honey we sell under our Monika's Kitchen brand.

Raw, Unfiltered & Unpasteurised

Our acacia honeycomb is raw, unfiltered and unpasteurised. The honey remains sealed naturally inside the comb until the wax cells are opened, without the heating or fine filtration commonly used in large-scale honey processing.

Because honeycomb is a natural hive product, the wax may also contain trace amounts of naturally occurring pollen and propolis.

After harvesting, László carefully handles the complete honeycomb frames by hand. Some are kept whole, while others are individually cut into smaller pieces for our Raw Acacia Honeycomb 210g.

For our Acacia Honey with Honeycomb 500g, pieces of hand-cut comb are placed into jars of clear golden acacia honey from the same producer.

For the closest experience to eating honey directly from the hive, our whole honeycomb frame allows pieces of fresh comb to be cut directly from the wooden frame. For a particularly memorable present, the same full frame is also available in an artisan wooden gift box.

Independently Tested Acacia Honeycomb

Our Acacia Honeycomb has been independently analysed by Quality Services International GmbH (QSI), a specialist honey-testing laboratory in Germany.

The tested Hungarian Acacia Honeycomb complied with the requirements of the EU Honey Directive. It recorded a moisture content of 16.4%, an HMF value of 3.9mg/kg, and diastase activity of 18.6 Schade units.

HMF is commonly used as an indicator of honey freshness and heat or storage degradation. For most honeys, the EU Honey Directive sets a maximum of 40mg/kg, making this result comfortably below the statutory limit. The diastase result also supports the honey’s good natural enzyme activity at the time of testing.

The sample’s fructose-to-glucose ratio was 1.52, consistent with the naturally slow crystallisation associated with acacia honey, while its sucrose content was just 0.1g/100g.

Together with László’s practice of harvesting and handling the honey without pasteurisation, these results provide useful independent evidence of careful processing and good freshness at the time of testing.

View the independent laboratory report for our Acacia Honeycomb.

Award-Winning Hungarian Acacia Honey

The quality of the honey inside our comb has also received independent recognition. The acacia honey extracted from László Váraljai’s comb was awarded 2 Stars at the 2026 Great Taste Awards by the Guild of Fine Food.

This provides an independent assessment of the flavour of the same type of acacia honey at the heart of our honeycomb collection.

View Best of Hungary’s Great Taste-recognised products in the official Guild of Fine Food directory.

What Does Acacia Honeycomb Taste Like?

Acacia honey is prized for its mild, clean and delicately floral flavour. Compared with stronger honeys, it has a particularly gentle character, with subtle blossom aromas and a smooth sweetness that lets the natural flavour of fresh comb shine.

Its high proportion of fructose also means acacia honey naturally stays liquid for longer than many other varieties, making it particularly well suited to honeycomb and honeycomb-in-honey products.

Discover more in our acacia honey collection or explore our wider range of raw Hungarian honey.

How to Eat Honeycomb

  • Cut off a small piece and enjoy the honey and edible wax together straight from the comb.
  • Serve honeycomb on warm toast or brioche, and let the honey soften and spread naturally.
  • Add pieces to yoghurt, porridge or granola for a simple breakfast treat.
  • Pair honeycomb with Brie, Camembert, blue cheese, goat’s cheese or mature cheddar on a cheese board.
  • Use small pieces to finish ice cream, desserts or fruit.
  • Place a whole honeycomb frame on a breakfast or grazing table for an impressive way to serve fresh honey to guests.

Buy Raw Acacia Honeycomb Online in the UK

Choose your favourite format to enjoy carefully sourced acacia honeycomb, from an individual hand-cut raw acacia honeycomb piece to acacia honey with honeycomb or a complete honeycomb frame, all harvested from László Váraljai’s hives near Ásotthalom on the Great Hungarian Plain.