Two granulation advice label wordings are available

Honey from local beekeepers will almost always granulate – the glucose is seeded by grains of pollen and one the process has started the honey will, if it started as a liquid, become cloudy and then solid.

Worse still, a puddle can be left atop the solid honey. This has a reduced sugar content level and is likely to ferment.

So it as a good idea to alert your customer to the granulation process and what they can do if their honey changes texture.

My labels describe two methods: one using a microwave, although it is very easy to ruin honey with this method by overheating it; the second method uses hot water which, so long as the water isn’t too hot, is not likely to damage the honey – but can take a long time.

If you want to show the microwave and hot water methods choose designs with a G1 prefix. The labels with a G2 prefix only describe the hot water method.

Labels can also show the optional advisory but recommended message about not feeding honey to infants under 12 months of age (Honey can contain spores of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, which can germinate in a baby’s immature digestive system and cause infant botulism, a rare but potentially fatal illness.)

Labels are 45 mm by 35 mm with 32 labels to a sheet in landscape or portrait format which fits neatly on a side of a 227g (8oz) hex jar or 63.5 mm by 38.1 mm in landscape format.

G1.1 – Microwave and hot water – no infant feeding advisory message

Above G1.1L: 45 mm x 35 mm
Above G1.1P 35 mm x 45 mm

G1.2 – Microwave and hot water – with infant feeding warning

Above G1.2L 45 mm x 35 mm
G2.1P 35 mm x 45 mm

G2.1 – Only the hot water method of liquidising – no infant feeding advisory message

Above G2.1L 45 mm x 35 mm
G2.1 35mm x 45mm
Above G2.1P 35 mm x 45 mm

G2.2 – As G2.1 including the advisory message.

Above G2.2L 45 mm x 35 mm
G2.2 35mm x 45mm
Above G2.2P 35 mm x 45 mm