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🍯 Honey Terroir and Flavour Profiling

Compare how floral source, soil minerality and climate combine to shape a honey's colour, crystallization and flavour profile, jar by jar.

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Choose a floral source, climate and soil, and watch a jar of honey change colour, crystallization and flavour profile in real time — a 3D reading of how a region ends up in a jar.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Honey's colour, mineral note, floral intensity and crystallization speed all shift together as floral source, soil minerality and seasonal warmth change — the same mechanism producers use to describe a honey's terroir.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a floral source region, adjust climate warmth and nectar flow, and toggle mineral-rich soil. Watch bees shift their foraging path, the jar's honey recolour and refill, and the flavour bars respond live.

💡 Did You Know?

Heather and forest honeydew honeys resist crystallization far longer than pale clover honey because of their different sugar ratios and higher mineral and protein content.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D apiary landscape where choosing a floral source region, climate warmth, nectar flow and soil minerality live-updates a jar of honey's colour, fill level, crystallization and a set of flavour-note bars (floral, mineral, fruity, robust).

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install