Maryland Code, AGRICULTURE 10-1901
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(b) “Blossom honey” or “nectar honey” means honey that comes from nectars of plants.
(c) “Honey” means the natural food product that:
(1) Honey bees produce from the nectar of plants, secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants;
(2) Honey bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store, and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature;
(3) Consists essentially of different sugars, predominantly fructose and glucose, and other substances, including organic acids, enzymes, and solid particles derived from honey collection;
(4) Has the color that may vary from nearly colorless to dark brown;
(5) Has the consistency that may be fluid, viscous, or partly to entirely crystallized; and
(6) Has the flavor and aroma that are derived from the plant of origin and may vary.
(d) “Honeydew honey” means honey that comes mainly from excretions of plant-sucking insects (Hemiptera) on the living parts of plants or secretions of living parts of plants.