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Honey is a saccharic secretion gathered and stored by honey bees, Apis mellifera.

HONEY is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Humectant, Skin Conditioning, Flavouring, with CAS number 8028-66-8. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 18 on Body Wash Shower Gel Naturals Milk & Honey 1L.

Sample products containing HONEY

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

Query HONEY in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "HONEY"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.