Honey taste like metal?
My honey tastes like metal, is it the honey or me?
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My honey tastes like metal, is it the honey or me?
I've never had an experience of honey tasting metallic, and I hope I never do.
What you mean by honey?
If you mean actual bee honey then no, it don't taste like metal.
If you mean honey like your bodily fluid honey then either way it is you, ya dig.
For me, it depends on the honey. I noticed some brands taste sweet while others can taste like dirt. XD
Sensitivity to particular tastes and smells varies between people. (What we experience as the taste of something is usually partly what we're smelling.) Our sense of taste is also influenced by things like what we've eaten immediately before, some drugs, pregnancy, and various medical issues.
So the taste of the honey could indeed be due to "you". If the honey is a well-known brand that you've bought from a supermarket, it's unlikely that the producer would have bottled honey that had a definite metallic taste since most people would find this unappealing. However, it could be that some combination of flavour and aroma that others would perceive differently seems metallic to you.
The taste of honey depends on the source of the nectar that the bees used to make it. Some plants produce nectar with very little taste and aroma, while others are strongly flavoured. A couple of days ago, we extracted honey from our hives after the fields of oil seed rape (canola in North America) around them stopped flowering. OSR honey has a strong aroma and taste. Some people like it, and others don't. It doesn't really appeal to me since it leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste, but I know I'm particularly sensitive to bitter tastes.
Mass-produced supermarket honey is blended from various sources and the manufacturers aim for a product that's bland. They also heat-treat and filter the honey, which gets rid of most of the aromatic molecules that give raw honey its aroma and taste.
If the honey is some off-brand that you bought because it was the cheapest on the shelf, then I'd be suspicious. A lot of the honey on the global market comes from China and other places where there's little monitoring of the producers, and there have been various reports over the years of questionable methods being used to produce stuff that looks like honey and tastes vaguely like honey, but isn't actually honey. The taste and aroma of honey can also be affected by how it has been stored. It seems possible to me that the honey has been kept in unlined steel drums for a lengthy period at some point, and it has acquired a metallic taste, but it's so subtle that only someone particularly sensitive to it can detect it.