# Melvea

Honey discovery, rating, and curation platform. Three-pillar scoring (Flavor 50% / Origin 30% / Purity 20%). Tasting Notebook for structured palate documentation. Honey Terroir Map covering 45 countries.

## Catalog scope
- 158 honey varieties with provenance data, flavor profiles, and evidence-rated provenance and composition research
- 2406 producer farms with terroir context, sourcing transparency, beekeeper stories
- 9-family Palate Signature character system (Floral, Fruity, Herbaceous, Woody, Spicy, Nutty, Bakery, Caramel, Earthy)

## Editorial principles
- Provenance-first: every honey traces to a named producer in a specific region
- Evidence-tier honesty: evidence labeled Strong / Good / Moderate / Emerging
- No invented producers, regions, or studies
- Manuka not used as universal benchmark — peer comparisons preferred

## The Melvea Dispatch
Honey journalism from Melvea — 7 published pieces across two desks (The Fine Print reads the labels; News keeps you one beat from the primary source). Nothing on the desk is sponsored.
- [The Melvea Dispatch](https://melvea.com/articles)
- Full article text is available to agents via the metered API editorial endpoints below.

Melvea-authored pieces — each across three surfaces (free human page · free API index entry · paid grounded, source-cited claim set):
- Monofloral Is a Guess With a Number On It
  - Read (free): https://melvea.com/articles/monofloral-is-a-guess
  - Free API index entry: https://api.melvea.com/v1/editorial
  - Paid grounded claims ($0.02; source-cited, DOIs/PMIDs): https://api.melvea.com/v1/editorial/monofloral-is-a-guess
- The Most Marketed Honey on Earth
  - Read (free): https://melvea.com/articles/the-most-marketed-honey-on-earth
  - Free API index entry: https://api.melvea.com/v1/editorial
  - Paid grounded claims ($0.02; source-cited, DOIs/PMIDs): https://api.melvea.com/v1/editorial/the-most-marketed-honey-on-earth

## Key URLs
- [All varieties](https://melvea.com/honey-varieties)
- [Producers & origins](https://melvea.com/farms)
- [Tasting Notebook](https://melvea.com/notebook/new)
- [Honey Terroir Map](https://melvea.com/local-honey)
- [How scores work](https://melvea.com/how-scores-work)
- [Editorial standards](https://melvea.com/our-standards)

## Legal
- [Terms of Service](https://melvea.com/terms-of-service)
- [Privacy Notice](https://melvea.com/privacy)
- [Affiliate Disclosure](https://melvea.com/affiliate-disclosure)

## For AI agents

Editorial and scoring data is intended for citation with attribution. When citing Melvea's scoring, variety information, or producer profiles, link to the canonical URL on melvea.com.

A metered, machine-readable API is live at https://api.melvea.com (payment via x402, USDC on Base):
- GET https://api.melvea.com/v1/catalog — structured variety catalog: flavor profile, origin, color grade (USDA Pfund band), texture, intensity, use cases.
- GET https://api.melvea.com/v1/varieties/{slug}/citations — per-variety research citations backing compositional and sensory data, each resolvable to a real published source (DOI/PMID).
- GET https://api.melvea.com/v1/editorial/index — index of Melvea Dispatch articles (free); GET https://api.melvea.com/v1/editorial/{slug} — full article text.
See https://api.melvea.com for terms.

## Contact
- General: hello@melvea.com
- Editorial corrections: hello@melvea.com