Delta Honey with Black Seed, 1 kg

This is bee honey with black seed from Delta, a brand sold in Egyptian shops as asal nahl Delta bi habbat el baraka. The black seed is nigella, the small matt-black seed you can see mixed through the honey. We sell the 1 kg jar exactly as it comes from the maker, unopened. We do not open, blend or repack it, so the jar you receive carries Delta's own label, with its ingredient line and its best-before date.

Expect sweet bee honey with a darker edge. Black seed on its own is oniony and slightly bitter with a peppery bite, so a spoonful tastes sweet first and faintly bitter and peppery after. Colour and taste change from harvest to harvest with the flowers the bees visited, so one jar can be a shade lighter or darker than another.

In Egypt black seed is called habbat el baraka, the seed of blessing, and honey with black seed is an old household custom: many families keep a jar on the breakfast table and take a spoonful in the morning or spread it on bread. This page describes it as a custom and a taste, nothing more. The seed itself is sold in this shop as Nigella - Black Seed, Habbat el Baraka, and the same maker's honey without the seed is in this category as Delta Bee Honey - Glass Jar.

Eat it by the spoon, spread it on warm bread or feteer with qishta, or stir it into yoghurt or tea. Stir the jar before you serve it, because the seeds can rise to the top or settle at the bottom. Always use a dry, clean spoon: a drop of water in the jar can make honey ferment.

Honey is not for babies under 12 months. Do not give it to an infant in food or in drinks, or on a dummy: this is the standard food-safety advice for all honey, whatever the brand. The jar also contains black seed, so leave it out if you are allergic to nigella.

What this page does not claim. It names no flower source, no place where the honey was gathered and no grade, and it says nothing about how the honey was processed: for those, read the label on the jar. Honey and black seed are both widely sold with long lists of claimed effects, and this listing repeats none of them. It is sold as food, and nothing here is a health claim or medical advice.

Keep the jar tightly closed at room temperature, away from the sun and the stove; honey does not need the fridge, and cold makes it crystallise faster. Crystallising is normal for honey: it slowly turns cloudy and thick or sets firm, and it has not gone off. To make it runny again, stand the closed jar in a bowl of warm, not boiling, water for a quarter of an hour, stir, and repeat until it is clear. Do not boil it or heat it in a microwave: strong heat darkens honey and changes its taste. The best-before date is printed on the jar.