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We were established in 2012 to specialize in healthy food products including New Zealand UMF Honey in Singapore. We created this site so that buyers of manuka honey in Singapore can make in informed decision what purchasing rather pricey Manuka honey from a variety of stores island-wide and online. The information contain in this site does not promote any of the brands we are carrying. We want to provide honey lovers the information for them to make their own choices but would be happy if you like to purchase the brands we carry.

There are so many brands of manuka honey in Singapore that for the even the most astute Singaporean shopper, they can feel overwhelm. Do I buy from a store and which store and how can I be assured of the quality and the UMF rating? How about MGO Manuka honey and should I be concerned that there could be non true to label Manuka honey in the market?

Recently the Consumer Council in Hong Kong had allegedly discovered adulteration of the honey in about one-quarter of the 55 samples of honey tested. It is still being debated if this is a consequence of false positive whereby sugar syrup is showing up in geniune manuka honey due to obsolete test methods or indeed honey has been contaminated in the export process to Hong Kong.

Bee Products Standards Council chairman Jim Edwards said "If the Consumer Council had discovered adulteration of the honey, then he could only speculate about how it would have taken place. We have no evidence that deliberate adulteration is taking place in New Zealand,'' Mr Edwards said.

There remained a possibility it was being diluted overseas, however, ''that depends on how the product is leaving the country'', he said.

''If there are exports of greater bulk leaving the country we have less control" Read the full article here

The truth is about 70% of manuka honey produced is active. There is a clear incentive to use untested or adulterated manuka honey to fetch a higher price. The main methods of doing so are by adding less active honey or by adding sugar syrup.  Furthermore some can heat up the manuka honey to get a short-lived high activity for testing which can last for about 10-15 days afterwhich almost all the activity will subside.

The take-away from all these is that one should buy manuka honey brands that have been packed, tested and certified in New Zealand. Buy brands that New Zealanders themselves are consuming and not those brands they used for export purposes. Afterall we are putting trust in the product as an to cure our sore throats and ulcers. We want to be assured of the real stuff.

Come visit here again to see the list of New Zealand branded manuka honey that you can buy from NZ

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