Reference materials in the public domain define honey as “a thick, sweet, syrupy substance that bees make as food from the nectar of plants or secretions of living parts of plants and store in honeycombs.” FDA has concluded that this definition accurately reflects the common usage of the term “honey
yeah the fda classifies it as a meat product.
That’s just a myth spread around the internet.
Their actual definition is:
https://www.fda.gov/media/110846/download
a definition is not a classification though. how do they categorise it?
As “Honey, jams, jellies, fruit butter, molasses”
https://www.fda.gov/product-categories-and-products
ah, neat!