Natural state means it is untouched and not processed, so it comes directly from mother nature. Organic honey is free of preservatives, additives, and artificial colors or flavors and it is good for your body. Honey cannot be labeled certified organic if it has traces of chemicals, drugs or antibiotics and it must be produced, processed, and packaged in accordance with national or federal regulations. It also needs to be certified organic by the governing body or an independent organic farming certification organization.

Honeybees that live and collect nectar in clean colonies free of contaminants are the ones that produce the truly organic honey. Honeybee colonies are about 2 mile radius from their beekeepers location. This means that honeybees could easily pick up contaminants, such as chemicals, drugs and antibiotics in their environment around their colonies.

For example, to reduce diseases in honeybees that gather nectar, antibiotics and chemicals such as sulfa compounds are used by many beekeepers. Also carbolic acid is used to easily remove the honey from the hive. In some instances, even calcium cyanide is used by beekeepers to kill the bee colonies before extracting the honey. Honeybees living in non-organic colonies gather nectar from areas that have been sprayed with pesticides and other chemicals.

Therefore, to produce truly organic honey first the honeybees need to be in an environment free of additives and chemicals. Second its processing must be kept to a minimum and no additives should be used. When you filter honey you remove its beneficial properties and you can ultimately change the color, and the taste, which can affect your recipe or delay healing.

The most pure form is the unfiltered raw honey because filtering and processing includes adding other syrups and flavors and chemicals to modify its properties. During filtering and processing, most of the benefits are lost including its healing and antimicrobial properties. Even though it is put through ultra-filtration processes to remove chemicals, the end results is honey that no longer has its healing properties because it has been heavily diluted with water, boiled and filtered until it returns to a more natural consistency.

One of the advantages of authentic organic honey is that organic honeybee growers need to sustain the natural life cycle of bees by safeguarding their natural environment. Also, certifying the hive as organic is expensive so most beekeepers do not exterminate the bees at the end of the season, which is often a very common practice among conventional beekeepers.