Raw honey and other kinds of honey are distinguished by how they are processed. This difference in processing happens after the bees make the honey and it is extracted from the hive. Raw honey is never heated or pasteurized. While other kinds of honey are processed at very high heat to make the bottling process easier and smoother. This heating process also melts the natural crystalization process to make honey seem more desirable on the shelf. The main benefits of honey come from its high concentration of living enzymes. Unfortunately, when honey is heated to high temperatures and pasteurized all of these living enzymes are killed, in turn completely changing the available benefits. Raw honey has all of the things nature intended. Unpasteurized and unheated is the way you want your honey, as it has all the benefits still unchanged.