The Serumpun Codex · Salt, fats, sugars and honey
Kelulut honey
The sour, floral honey of stingless bees.
The entry
- Name
- Kelulut honey
- Other names
- Stingless-bee honey
- Scientific name
- From stingless bees, chiefly Heterotrigona itama; also Geniotrigona thoracica
- What it is
- The sour, floral honey of stingless bees.
- Knowledge from
- Farmed in Sarawak at Nanga Dap and Tanjung Manis.
- How it is used
- Harvested from the resin pots of kept colonies.
- Season and place
- Farmed across Sarawak, including at Nanga Dap and Tanjung Manis, where hives sit in Acacia mangium forest, and off Jalan Samalaju, Bintulu. A nest box yields about 0.5 kg of honey a month.
- Conservation status
- Not applicable
- Codex Alimentarius
- No Codex standard: CXS 12-1981 covers honey of honey bees only
- Medicinal knowledge
- Held privately by the community
- Consent
- Given, recorded by CHASS, 30 October 2026
Still to be confirmed: who shared it with Serumpun and its use in the French Borneo kitchen.
Sources
- Wong et al., 2019
- DayakDaily, Sweet success: Sarawak biggest producer of kelulut honey in Malaysia, 2018
- The Star, Huge potential in honey, 2018
- MalaysiaNow, Busy as a bee on Bintulu honey farm, 2022
Added to the Codex on 1 November 2026. Sources last checked on 1 November 2026.
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How to cite this entry
Serumpun Sarawak (2026) ‘Kelulut honey’, The Serumpun Codex, ed. James Won. Available at: https://www.chefjameswon.com/serumpun/codex/kelulut-honey/ (sources checked 1 November 2026).
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