Fake Manuka Honey in news

[blackcavebees]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11113964
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/9085196/Industry-knew-of-manuka-fake-risks

Seems tests have shown some of what is labelled as Manuka and sold for silly money isn't actually what it claims.

Personally, I can't stand the stuff, preferring County Antrim's best, produced by my girls in the back garden

 

[drstitson]

manuka is just a clever marketing scheme for a product that the kiwis had an excess of with no market.

perhaps you could devise a County Antrim Activity Scale and market your honey at gullible worried well.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Marmite honey?

 

[blackcavebees]

Marmite honey?

I can't spell the facial expression I'm making now ..... No no never

 

[Winker]

up to 1980 the new Zealand beekeepers count give the stuff away, then one ingenious beekeeper came up with the idea of selling it as health product...

 

[domino]

I thought there was some science behind it? That said there is no way I'm spending £15 for a jar of honey; of course I'm too scared to work out how much mine costs

 

[BeeJayBee]

I thought there was some science behind it?

Of course there is. But whether the science was there before the product, or whether the science was carefully designed to match the (rather disgusting) product is another matter!

I think it was very clever marketing, designed to sell a product that not many people wanted to buy.

 

[drstitson]

all (proper) honeys have the same health benefits (give or take).

 

[domino]

Does is taste nice?

 

[For want of a better word]

Does is taste nice?

Mankuna Honey?
For those who have no taste & big deep pockets it is just maaaaaavellloooous
Dahling!

Emperor's new cloths / crystals / healthy living and all that jazz IMOVHCO !!

Manuca... the K is the marmite version !

 

[Russel]

Mankuna Honey?
For those who have no taste & big deep pockets it is just maaaaaavellloooous
Dahling!

Emperor's new cloths / crystals / healthy living and all that jazz IMOVHCO !!

Manuca... the K is the marmite version !

This should make you smile! On ebut 190880755986

"We are very pleased to announce the arrival of a new Bee Venom honey to your table! A new name ‘Manuka Ease’ but the same lovely flavour and the all important ingredient Bee Venom, only this time added naturally by our bees. Enjoy Manuka Ease on toast, porridge, a warm drink or even off the spoon and help soothe any aches and pains with one of Mother Nature’s best kept secrets."

 

[REDWOOD]

So what can we British come up with or are we to honest,

 

[user 6228]

So what can we British come up with or are we to honest,

real honey( tm)Small batch vintage Coarse filtered local honey, high in local seasonal pollen. See label for estimated nectar pollen collection time

 

[Little John]

I would have thought that 'set' honey - as in 'set rock-hard' honey - could be sold with it's condition being 'proof' of unadulteration - the inference being that supermarket 'runny honey' probably has water (and gawd knows what else) added to it.

LJ

 

[pargyle]

This should make you smile! On ebut 190880755986

"We are very pleased to announce the arrival of a new Bee Venom honey to your table! A new name ‘Manuka Ease’ but the same lovely flavour and the all important ingredient Bee Venom, only this time added naturally by our bees. Enjoy Manuka Ease on toast, porridge, a warm drink or even off the spoon and help soothe any aches and pains with one of Mother Nature’s best kept secrets."

Bee Venom Snake Oil .... I commend it to the house ... mix it with a bit of the worst honey you can extract - endless possibilities. Perhaps something to do with all that ivy honey that's going to be coming in shortly !