About us
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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