Description
Mānuka: An Award Winning Honey
Our Mānuka MG100+ Honey is a GOLD medal winner in the London Honey Awards and the NZ Outstanding Food Producers in 2021. Judges described it as a ‘beautiful product’ with ‘unique characteristics’ and ‘release of flavours as it melts’.
We can only say what our customers tell us: our Mānuka Honey is the one of the best Mānuka Honeys of New Zealand. Punching powerful properties and a taste with complex and earthy undertones.
Mānuka Honey Properties
Mānuka Honey can only be described now as a phenomenon. It has been shown through scientific studies across the world to have many beneficial properties, that make Mānuka Honey so highly valued and sought after. All our Mānuka Honey is tested by an independent internationally-accredited laboratory for methylglyoxal content that sets the rating that we apply for our Mānuka Honey. This certification behind every jar of our Mānuka Honey gives you confidence in the quality of our product.
The Mānuka Tree & Traditional Uses
Mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium) grows as a shrub or small tree up to 6 m tall, in forest edges or areas of reverting pasture. The flowers are small and designed to be pollinated by native bees and flies, but the honey bee also works the Mānuka flower to produce this remarkable honey.
Mānuka is a Māori word and our ancestors knew all about special powers of the Mānuka tree. We only have to break down the word Mānuka itself to find that our ancestors understood it was a ‘device’ (nuka) for making something clean (mā). Thus, different parts of the Mānuka tree were used traditionally for antiseptic purposes.
The bark of the Mānuka tree was boiled and the infusion drunk or applied externally to relieve pain. Infusions of the bark, capsules and seed of the Mānuka tree were also applied to burns and wounds, or for treating mouth, throat and eye affliction, and to reduce fever. Mānuka was also used to treat wounds on horses and other domestic animals.
Our Mānuka Honey – From Us to You!
We present our Mānuka Honey here in 500g jars, but it is also available in 250g and 110g. You will also find it included in a range of gift-packs, and as a base ingredient in our range of PUHI Skincare.
Use our Mānuka Honey daily as an elixir as a drink or straight from the jar. You can also use it for enhancing and sweetening your favourite dishes.
Chris Young –
Beautiful honey that my whole family loves.
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Hope all is well for you Chris. Thanks for your comment – hope the family continues to enjoy our honey.
Marilyn –
Best Manuka honey I have tasted….. ever…and I have been eating Manuka honey since childhood in the 1950’s!
The texture is lovely and smooth; and the 100+ active manuka factor is a bonus. Excellent for both taste buds and health.
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Thanks for your comment Marilyn. It’s taken us a long time to reply but just wanted to say we’re proud of the quality of our manuka honey and it’s great to see you appreciate it!
Sue (verified owner) –
Manawa Manuka Honey is a very important part of my daily wellbeing. I always look forward to a rounded teaspoon of your smooth and delicious Manuka Honey as a topping on my yogurt, cereals and fruit each morning. I have an auto-immune gut and thus I can experience irritable bowel syndrome. For me I have found that a rounded teaspoon of your Manuka Honey each morning has helped to ease my symptoms. I have also adopted a FODMAP diet and follow the food guide recommendations available on the Monash University FODMAP Diet app. Monash University advise one teaspoon (7g) of Honey is low FODMAP at any one sitting. There is a lot of information available on the Web regarding Manuka Honey and irritable bowel syndrome.
Thank you so much again for your special “Honey from the Heart”. I enjoy reading the information on your excellent website, including the papers by Peter Molan, and your history and business model is an inspiration.
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Thanks for your review of our Manuka Honey. As replied to you for your other review, we find this so informative about how our honey works for you in relation to your condition of irritable bowel syndrome, I hope that others with this condition can learn from it. We will certainly share this knowledge when we can with our customers. Cheers, naku na Brenda.
Radhika Dewan –
The color and taste of Manuka honey is unlike any other honey ! Plus it’s medicinal properties of work like a charm on minor throat sore problems for my entire family!
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Kia ora Radhika – greetings from New Zealand! Yep Manuka Honey is definitely unique in its taste – so earthy it is. Good to hear you are using this honey for the health of your family – Manuka Honey can certainly do this.