Honey and Jams

ORGANIC COFFEE BLOSSOM HONEY

Camocim Organic produces a unique Coffee Blossom Honey made from the flowers of the organic coffee trees. With it’s distinct coffee flavor and creamy texture, this product can be added to the offering of coffee related products by gourmet and specialty coffee retailers as well as barisistas who desires to incorporate this natural sweetener in their coffee and tea offerings.

Camocim Organic produces jams made from organically grown fruits harvested from within the Estate. These exotic fruits appeal to the gourmet and specialty markets and instantly become a favorite of chefs throughout the world. Currently, Camocim Organic produces jams from organic Jabuticaba fruit and jams made from Pitanga Fruit.

JABOTICABA JAM

Jabuticaba is an exotic fruit that look like purple grapes and it has a very sweet, slightly aromatic, translucent pulp with a pleasant grape flavor. It provides an excellent accompaniment to red meats and patês.

Jabuticaba is a member of the Myrtaceae (Myrtle) family and is known botanically as Eugenia cauliflora. ("Cauliflora" means that it flowers and bears fruit on the trunk, mature branches and exposed roots). It is a relative of the guava and true myrtle. The word "jabuticaba" is said to have been derived from the Tupi term, jabotim, for turtle, and means "like turtle fat", presumably referring to the fruit pulp. Little known outside their natural range, these members of the myrtle family, are perhaps the most popular native fruit-bearers of Brasil. Like all deep colored fruits, Jabuticaba is an execellent source of Resjeragnol, a powerful anti-oxidant that has been found to slow the oxidation process which is a major factor in accelerating the aging process.

PITANGA JAM

Pitanga is not one of our better known fruits, but it deserves to be. The small and interesting-shaped fruits are packed with a sweet, tangy flavor–quite complex and with a sort of “wild” flavor (if it were meat, one might say “gamey”). It is also called Surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora) or Brasilian Cherry. Unlike most other members of this genus, which are native to southeastern Asia, the Surinam Cherry is indigenous to tropical Brasil. The mature fruit ranges from light to dark red. The juicy sweet-acid pulp encloses one, or sometimes two, fairly large seeds. Pitanga is an excellent fresh fruit and the pulp is a good source of calcium, and a fair source of phosphorus and iron.