Bringing manuka honey home from NZ

[jenkinsbrynmair]

You can't deny it has its uses in treating some infections/viruses

That's if you smear it on a suppurating sore - not if you eat it - germolene has the same effect, but you wouldn't put that on your toast - or would you?

 

[Apple]

My sister took some Marmite to Copenhagen, to be treated like some kind of drug smuggler when they went through her hand luggage and found it!

Personally I prefer Marmite to Mankunah honey!

James

 

[irishguy]

That's if you smear it on a suppurating sore - not if you eat it - germolene has the same effect, but you wouldn't put that on your toast - or would you?

I would rather put manuka honey on a sore TBH than something unnatural!

So tell me this JBN, if a friend or family member was on a wee trip to NZ and brought you 1kg of manuka honey home, are you saying you wouldn't be happy with the jesture and use the honey either by eating or using it as a treatment!

 

[Hivemaker.]

are you saying you wouldn't be happy with the jesture and use the honey either by eating or using it as a treatment!

Is it any good at clearing blocked drains.

 

[mbc]

Because it's foul tasting rubbish - just a con trick by the New Zealanders to get rid of c@ap honey that noone in their right mids in new Zealand would buy

It's not my favourite either but this is a bit harsh imo. The stories about kiwi beekeepers washing it out of combs are true, but this is more a function of their economy being reliant on exports and the export market at the time demanding "white" clover honey, than Manuka honey tasting rank.
I think mixing it with jazz talc would probably improve it though

 

[bontbee]

manooka tastes like clutch fluid

 

[bontbee]

I would rather put manuka honey on a sore TBH than something unnatural!

How do you know when a top bar hive needs soothing?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Is it any good at clearing blocked drains.

Quite probably the loo after it's been eaten?

 

[irishguy]

I must seriously get my hands on some of the honey you guys are tasting because if going by what you all think about manuka, your honey must be something else because I put manuka honey above any honey that I've tasted, apart from my own that is

 

[Little John]

That's if you smear it on a suppurating sore - not if you eat it - germolene has the same effect, but you wouldn't put that on your toast - or would you?

I assume this is just part of a rant, and that you're not actually being serious about this ?

LJ

 

[td4bees]

mk. honey

it just tastes like fermented oil seed honey to me.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I assume this is just part of a rant, and that you're not actually being serious about this ?

LJ

I'm being serious or are you one of the ones taken by the hype?

 

[Madge]

... because I put manuka honey above any honey that I've tasted, apart from my own that is

I've never tasted manuka honey, so I can't comment on its taste, but I have heard that manuka honey exports far exceed manuka honey production - so, what you tasted, IG, might not have been manuka honey at all.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

I've never tasted manuka honey, so I can't comment on its taste, but I have heard that manuka honey exports far exceed manuka honey production - so, what you tasted, IG, might not have been manuka honey at all.

You're spot on there, MC. "The main honey suppliers’ organisation in New Zealand believes 1,700 tons of manuka honey are produced there every year, but 1,800 tons are being sold in the UK alone." - see http://www.greenbayharvest.co.uk/blog/manuka-honey-fake-labelling-issues/

Aussies can grow tee tree bushes as well and a bee-farmer I met there in February had produced some "manuka" honey from his tree tree shrubs and sent identical samples to 3 NZ testing laboratories so that he could determine the UMF (unique manuka factor). Each laboratory gave a significantly different result so the Aussi concluded that UMF is a con.

I have never tasted what I know to be genuine NZ Manuka honey - be interesting to know if it's as strong as dandelion or ivy (both of which did well at a blind taste test at a recent CBBA "do").

CVB

 

[irishguy]

I've never tasted manuka honey, so I can't comment on its taste, but I have heard that manuka honey exports far exceed manuka honey production - so, what you tasted, IG, might not have been manuka honey at all.

I know this, I've read up on this on a few occasions. There's companies out there mixing manuka honey with other honey and calling it manuka and others are just blatantly lying with none what so ever mixed.
Comvita and manuka health is the 2 I've tasted. Are they both real manuka honeys, I don't know but I know one thing, I liked both of them. Even if this honey I'm getting isn't truely manuka honey, I don't care. What I'll be happy with is that I'll getbto taste 2kg of honey from the other side of the world. Any beek who turns down such an offer is a nutjob of the highest caliber IMO!!

 

[roche]

I like the stuff - it's got a big bold flavour. It's not necessarily for every day - variety is good - but for me it's certainly way in front of OSR.

 

[Madge]

That you like it, IG, is all that matters - particularly if you don't have to pay £27.49 for 500g!

 

[irishguy]

Edit.

 

[Torq]

I've a jar of honey from East Timor, must open it some time. Who knows it may be better than the manky honey from NZ. But it's everyone to their own tastes I suppose, even gingers have their admirers.

 

[Little John]

I'm being serious or are you one of the ones taken by the hype?

Hype ? I used Honey Tulle (BP) in NHS clinical practice back in the 1970's. We had several patients who had been admitted with pressure sores, and another - who was diabetic - with leg ulcers which simply refused to heal. When the use of Honey Tulle was recommended for these patients, every single person in the team was sceptical, as these were the days before the Internet, and we had no way of knowing back then that honey has been used in wound dressings for centuries.

The results were nothing short of miraculous - within a few days, skin tissue began to granulate, and in a very short time these wounds were completely healed. Honey had worked where more modern patented concoctions had persistently failed.

Prior to using Honey Tulle, we had been forced to sprinkle antibiotic powder (streptomycin, if memory serves) directly onto exposed tissue (i.e. open wounds) - hardly desirable, but deemed necessary in order to prevent infections which might have led to septicaemia - but Honey Tulle enabled us to dress these wounds without such antibiotics. It was brilliant - and in my professional judgement, a vastly under-rated therapeutic substance.

In short - you have never been so wrong.

LJ