Food science students at the University of Guelph are bottling up tasty honey with a kick.
Co-op students at the Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC) combined hot peppers and honey to create their very own Hot Honey.
“There’s kind of that initial hit of sweetness and then that little burn at the end,” said Hannah Ferouz, a food science major at the University of Guelph.
Ferouz said the group harvested leviathan, beast, red magma, and scotch brain peppers from the Bovey Teaching Greenhouse on campus.
The honey is sourced from the university’s Honey Bee Research Centre.
The ingredients are combined with salt and vinegar, pasteurized, then bottled.
“You can put it on vanilla ice cream, you can put it on salads, in sandwiches, charcuterie boards,” Ferouz said.
Since 2018, co-op students at GFIC have been making Cannon Fire hot sauce. The Hot Honey project began last year, as a way …