Remember local honey is the best. It might help your local bee keeper, the environment and pollution levels, but might also give health benefits like reduced allergic reactions against local pollens.
Well, I can tell you the following: I've never bought Manuka honey, but its texture really reminds me of the unprocessed honey that we make in the region of Foloi in Ilia, Greece, close to ancient Olympia. Although, it is different: it is made from oak and the arbutus unedo, a tree with a fruit similar to strawberries. But when unprocessed, it has a very fluid texture, with its taste being somewhat bitter, and then sweet, but with an extreme note all way through. Which indicates it has a lot of antioxidant properties. I would recommend that.
Thats because NZ Manuka has to be whipped according to NZ government regulations. Australia also produces Manuka Honey (The Manuka Tree is actually Australian) but they do not whip it. Look for a Manuka Honey company that uses a cold extraction method :)
I'm actually a full time "professional" beekeeper, I've tasted and tried honey from all over the world too due to my work. The truth is that all RAW and UNPROCESSED honey is actually naturally anti bacterial and anti inflammatory, some more than others yes, but manuka honey does NOT top the chart in that regard. In my experience (and science backs this up), heather honey is superior to manuka in medicinal properties and costs a fraction of the price. Taste however is a matter of opinion. Don't get me wrong, manuka honey is great for you and super tasty but the truth is that manuka honey is very well marketed, and is not the superfood people think it is. If you pay 100$ for a jar of this, then you're a victim of marketing.
Thanks for your comment! I bought Manuka Hkney the other day as someone recommended it to me (I didn't pay the full price as ot was on sale) but I'll definitely be looking for raw and unprocessed local honey though
you don’t need a ton of it when using it for medicinal reasons. i put it on a leg wound that didn’t want to heal. i had to reapply it four times a day & used it for three weeks and a 1oz container was more than enough. and the container was only $7. but you look kinda stupid saying you’re a beekeeper but then start talking about healthcare stuff.
@@misseselise3864 okay stranger on the internet. How do I look stupid? There’s no need to be rude. This is literally my field of work and has been for around 25 years. Medicine and honey go hand in hand, it’s not just a sweet tasty thing found in a jar. I wasn’t talking down Manuka honey, I literally said it was great, I was simply pointing out that the world is large and there are far better honeys out there. I barely spoke about “health stuff”, although I’m qualified to do just that if I wanted to. If you got your Manuka honey cheap then that’s fantastic, good for you I guess.
The best honey I’ve ever had was when I was on vacation in Turkey. It was local to the village. The waiter gave us a jar from free. It was heavenly delicious.
Turkey has “Anzer Balı” which needs to be highlighted like Manuka. I’d admit that it’s very expensive like Manuka but very high quality. Apart from that, there are many other organic honeys in Turkey and they’re all “must-try”..
I live in NZ and i can tell you that whilst Manuka is a good honey, Native Bush honey is much more fudgey and caramelly at less than half the price. Manuka is overrated in my opinion.
@@CherryFlower24 Just get regular honey, ginger, and chamomile tea at 1/100th of the price and you probably fight off your cold better than meme honey.
@@momothewitch I do too sometimes but not each time. I'd rather not overload my body with articifial chemical stuff since we are already a lot in contact with those on a daily basis
You didn’t eat boujee honey even if you live in New Zealand unless you purchased an expensive option. Most honey you’ll eat is honey made by feeding bees sugar water or collected from small farmers who will dilute their honey in order to sell more towards a commercial retailer. I recommend you purchase a cheaper alternative from a local farmers market as it’s likely to also contain Manuka if you wish to eat Manuka honey. The taste isn’t really that great though and there are plenty of other varieties that taste better. The part at the end where they got regular people to try boujee honey was quite dumb since the content of various nutrients and sugar in non-commercial honey is significantly higher as they’re not diluted hence better taste (literally more sugar).
The best honey I've had so far in my life was Greek thyme honey. I love it. I also had a decent American raw honey from the New York area. Was so tasty. There are lots of amazing, healthy honeys. I don't buy Manuka because it's too pricey for me, and I like to consume 2-3 tablespoons of honey per day.
I remember that I was visiting Vermont once and as I was driving through a rural area there was a beekeeper on the side of the road selling his honey, to this day it’s the best honey I’ve ever hard, I went back a couple years ago praying he was still selling it but I couldn’t find him anymore
@@feifeifeiht Its such a big thing, Australians are now claiming the word 'Manuka' is an old Aboriginal word and are trying to use it in their honey. The UK courts gave NZ sole rights to the name, but Australias appealing it.
The Manuka tree (Leptospermum scoparium) is actually also native to Australia. It is part of the Myrtaceae family which is mostly endemic in Australia, with a few species found in New Zealand and South East Asia.
I use honey only from local hives because the health benefits are better, and it helps the smaller beekeepers. However, I have seen Manuka honey destroy MRSA and save a boys foot and leg from amputation (about 15 years ago). I don’t know if any other honey would have but the Manuka definitely did.
You require a large area in Manuka + time, for the UMF Manuka to rise to the surface of the extracted 'honey'. There's also limits, to where Manuka will grow & even then, there's variations in the amount & quality of the processed nectar. The honey, also takes on some of the propertys of the tree, which are, antimicrobial - viruse & bacteria & it's also antifungal. The limited flowering season doesn't help the costs - I checked my local supermarkets pricing for Manuka honey, today - the cheapest, has a lot of natural sugars in it & appears like creamed honey, was $6.00, the most expensive they had was over $40.00. Go to a speacilst honey shop and there will be high UMF Manuka honey, for between $20.00, & over $100.00, depending on the UMF number, which relates directly, to its medicinal benifits.
08/02/2021 - A Dannevirke business is reaping the benefits of its prized manuka honey which is flying off the shelves at Harrods for nearly $5000 a jar. "As far as we're aware it's the highest grade manuka honey that's ever been produced in the world," says True Honey Company founder and CEO Jim McMillan. The batch of honey is so rare that True Honey Company's sold all 200 jars exclusively to Harrods in London, fetching almost $5000 a pop....!!!
@@marcbee1234 if Canadian clover honey rules, why is it that many Apiarists get their Queens from New Zealand ? - just like a lot of American Apiarists.. Clover honey, is clover honey, no matter where you grow / harvest it.
@@davidarundel6187 Where you get your queens has nothing to do with honey made by bees, volume yes but end product no. I worked 400 bee hives in Southern California for many years, I've tried Manuka it's good but not nearly as impressive as Canadian clover or California's sage, orange, alfalfa or blue curl which is the best of the best in it's pure form but extremely rare.
"Because the bees have to travel 6km to retrieve the honey..." Oh yeah that must really be hard for you to watch the bees do all that work. How can they charge for the bees traveling?!? Do they pay the bees gas money? Lol
a little bit later he says "in New Zealand we have wind and we have rain and all the rest of it..." as if that is a special hardship that makes collecting honey more difficult in New Zealand than it is in the rest of the world. that guy is an idiot just stringing words together to sound like he is explaining something really complex, while actually saying nothing at all of actual substance.
OMG it's delicious tastes like $100 a teaspoon 😂 I think this specific honey may have good characteristics but it is way overhyped marketed down the throat like many other things in the world.
@@masterkamen371 EVERY real honey has anti-microbiotical properties, and the honey from every plant will taste, smell and look differently, so yeah, marketing.
As a beekeeper, this is pure marketing with little to no facts involved. There is zero way to limit bees from harvesting everything flowering in the area.
I grew up and live in New Zealand and eaten this honey heaps. You can taste the difference in flavour and quality. so you saying its a marketing stunt just isn't true you obviously hadn't had it much or at all
Harikusa I think what the person meant is that most honeys are FAKE. some bee keepers feed them sugar water and what they reproduce is far from actual honey. Raw honey is best, look for crystallization
Can every honey kill antibiotic resistant bacteria though? www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/113257021/mnuka-honey-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-found-in-cystic-fibrosis
I grew up in New Zealand, and until I was 12, I didn't even know what Manuka trees and flowers looked like. Which was pretty stupid cause our primary school had a couple growing near the backfield. I also remember my grandmother buying some to help her with her health problems.
I used manuka honey many years and it does help with stomachache and period pain very effective in a short time, which no other honeys can do. My husband however prefer local honey and it helps with his allergies
Oh I use it for the same purpose. Plus, against the cold/flu, too. Especially the nasty coughing… it immediately helps me get rid of it. I take 2-3 tbs. daily.
@@veegtec that's crazy 😮 Also it s less cool than a bank made of mapple syrup. Also it would harm the consumer to have controlled price no? Meh whatever I don't even eat that much mapple syrup
@@sitrakamatthieu it is crazy and there are pros and cons to it apparently. Some say that this federation means that maple syrup harvesters have a steady stream of profit that they can live off. Here is a link to an episode made by Netflix. uproxx.com/tv/maple-syrup-heist-documentary-netflix-dirty-money/
I love honey, every where I go to, I try their local honey, and let me tell you the best honey I've had is from mexico, near the wineries south of Ensenada. I could taste the flowers!!! it was an explosion of colorful fields and flowers in my mouth. I've never had anything like it, and the royal jelly, the best! Edit... and it cost less than $20 USD!
Once i bought 32 different local honeys from Portugal and tasted all of them in two sessions. It is incredible the different tastes, textutes and colors from honey. Aromas were from jasmine flowers to coffee, orange to eucaliptus, wood taste etc. Some of the best flavours were from local producers without any brand.
My parents used to get so mad at us when we would put Manuka honey in our tea instead of sugar. To me, honey was honey, I didn't see what the big deal was. Until I saw it on a shelf in the shop. Sorry mum and dad🙏😭
@@drej1934 They do get normal honey as well, but to me there wasn't any difference at the time. Obviously now I know better. Besides they haven't bought manuka honey in quite a while so normal honey it is😅
0:42. “The fact that it comes from New Zealand, that gives it a premium just to start with.” Oh really? Why? 0:47. “And because the bee travels up to about six kilometres to collect this honey”... What has that got to do with the high price of Manuka honey?
Nothing. I'm in NZ, used to be a beekeeper and this vid is bull. Mānuka is NOT rare. In many places it is the most common flowering plant and millions are being planted for the honey industry every year. Also, the season doesn't last just a couple of weeks. Mānuka flowers at different times in different parts of the country so beekeepers move their hives all around making the season last months. When a good flow is on a well-managed hive can produce upwards of 60kgs of honey in a single site. As for healing properties, all honey is anti-bacterial etc by necessity, Mānuka is not special in this regard. The NZ Mānuka honey industry is a scam tbh.
I raise honey bees. This year I collected 70 quarts from two hives. I am fortunate to have gotten 40 acres of unproductive farm ground into a "bird, butterfly and bee flower program" about 3 years ago. It's a contract 10 year program. I seeded with anapproved and specified seed mix and now there are literally millions and millions of flowers blooming all through the growing season. My bees are 20 feet away from all this goodness so they don't have to fly far to get what they need, so their production is crazy huge! This year's honey was crystal clear as water! The last 11 quarts this fall had a tiny stain of yellow to it ( from the last flowers blooming, they were Asters) but the taste of the honey this year was truely remarkable! And the bees dried it to a very thick consistently. This year's harvest is for family only, I don't sell this quality of honey. I sell the other years honey for $ 40 quart. It is as clear as corn syrup and has a very clean honey taste with no lingering foulness. Everyone else's honey around here is much darker and has lingering various tastes compared to these hives honey. It's all about the types flowers and quantities available. The bees will pick and choose the right flowers for perfect honey IF the flowers and quantities are there. They will use whatever is available if they have to but, let them have a choice and they make the perfect honey. I use a new kind of hive called a Flow Hive. No processing honey for me ever again!
Great, natural honey, like everything else, it's easier to get the scientists in to make it into frankenstein food. Max profit, enough is never enough when profit is concerned,
It's like Tupelo honey , made from the Tupelo tree that only grows along the river in Wewahitchka Florida. The taste is lighter and sweeter. Great for arthritis and other ailments. It's not cheap but it's affordable ☺
"does it taste different to normal honey?" Dude all honey tastes different, it depends what flowers the bees have been too and what blending the company's do to get the taste profiles they want.
My family works in the distribution and retail of Non-commercial Honey and we have quite a large collection of honey from various sources. Harvest season (Affects Flowers), and Location are the biggest factors towards taste. Manuka honey is definitely not on top in terms of taste as it has a bitter taste and some people think it tastes like medicine so it definitely doesn’t deserve all this attention. In terms of health properties there really isn’t any proven health benefits to Manuka and they indirectly admitted it in the video. I recommend you support your local beekeepers and purchase honey from them. You’d may even be surprised at how affordable it is considering the taste.
Taste like meds. Delicious isn’t exactly the term I would use, but I’ve never known a remedy that actually kicks colds and coughs faster. I’m sold on manuka honey.
Sagar Shah actually maybe so. I have had it and it actually taste some what salty and a bit more sweeter than regular honey. Along with its thick texture. But it doesn’t completely taste like Carmel, but it sort of has that taste and texture.
Ram I mean the cheap ones are often mixed with some kind of other shit like sugar or something else... But there’s the more expensive ones that are all natural...
This honey is extremely help with my Asthma. It's fully justified to do more researching on respiratory honey medicine. I want to take a minute to take about the bees. We need to protect their environment by pressuring governments into massive reforestation projects. This year has been a nightmare for our forests. I enjoyed learning more about the honey.
It tastes very similar but different it can be a bit less harsh, more smooth, creamy than regular honey, the texture is one of the main differences I'd say. I still love regular honey and honestly I think they both have their own places to be used for example I use manuka honey to mix with peanut butter, and other foods I also eat it raw sometimes, but I use regular honey to sweeten drinks & things like that. I'd definitely say if you haven't you should try manuka honey . Although where i live if a regular sized like maybe 16-20 oz container of honey costs $10.00-$15.00 manuka costs $29.99-$35.00 on average so yeah its not cheap!
There is no need to. 6 km is more than enough for set of hives to collect honey to a full capacity. If you have bigger spot, you just place another bee hivery.
Some of the bees are so rich now that they have bought cars to help with travelling so far.... But they'll only buy one car... The volkswagen BEETIL ! 😏
I would have liked to see a comparison of anti-bacterial properties between Manuka honey and other honey. To my knowledge all honey has these properties. Instead of buying overpriced Manuka honey, I would instead buy whole honeycomb. Whole honeycomb is said to retain more of the benefits of the honey because the honey is sealed in the hexagonal chambers and does not come into contact with air until the very moment you eat it. I don't think it would be far fetched to say it is more beneficial than Manuka honey for probably half the price.
the real joke is that the anti-bacterial properties of honey only work when used topically. And I'm pretty sure those properties are just because of the high sugar concentration and you could get them from hfcs too
@@jypsridic The anti-bacterial properties work when taken internally. Mix a tiny bit with Bragg's apple cider vinegar to help start digestion and kill bad germs you've inadvertently ingested.
@@veganconservative1109 No, you just believe psuedoscience nonsense. Do you even know what honey does to bacteria that makes it anti-microbial? Also drinking vinegar is literally pointless.
@@jypsridic Yeah, if at all. The antibacterial properties of honey largely stem from its extremely hydrophilic nature; it wants to suck up lots of water. So much so that it literally sucks up the water closed by the membranes of bacteria, thus killing them and being antibacterial. When diluted, for example through saliva in the mouth or in water, most if not basically all of that antibacterial nature is lost. Its all a big fking scam
Stingless Bee honey is beautiful 🍯 if you get the opportunity, try it! I am a bee keeper in Australia and something I've found interesting is each different species of stingless bee's honey have a very unique taste between them. Some build their nests using only wax which makes it taste very sweet, others such as Tetragonula Carbonaria - use tree resins. Because they build their honey pots using resins it gives it a very interesting taste and also said to have antimicrobial qualities too, something to think of is that the resin they use itself is secreted as a defence mechanism from plants. Overseas there's a species that encorporates poo into the nest structure, though I can't imagine that'd be nice. Thanks for the vid!
😜 no bro sorry. I'm a New Zealander and while I can tell you it has been used for decades to treat necrotic deep tissue ulcerated wounds and is better than conventional antibiotics for this, it can't regrow hair.
It's for those who want the best regardless! If it doesn't cure cancer, diabetes etc., will there be any takers? Perhaps beauty products will be the biggest buyers. The users would have to have money pouring out of their sweat glands and who knows ; from where else!
I was slathered with manuka honey by my Maori hosts when I had a bad sunburn visiting NZ. Thought it was ridiculous but the swelling/redness from the sunburn disappeared within a couple hours. Mind blown.
Just info for anyone who might experience similar case. I had a bad case gastritis and gastric ulcer when i was pregnant with my first daughter, but due to restrictions i couldn't take omeprazole and typical antacid wont do. It turns out that taking a spoonful of this honey (I had the UMF 15+ to 20+) every morning dan before sleeping did lessen the pain somehow. Honestly, that high UMF made it tasted horrible and more like medicine than honey, but at least I got through both pregnancies by consuming it as a substitute to my gastric medication. As for the price, there's a varying degree for different brand. I dont know which one is the best in terms of value and effect but I knew it did help in my case. I think its expensive because of the narrow harvesting window (2-6 weeks per year?)
@@ArthropodJay It's not, the UMF rating is what determines honeys antimicrobial, antiviral and antibiotic properties. Processed honey has very little to none of these properties as it is highly processed and not sourced the same way. The evidence is in the science.
I can attest to the fact that Manuka is superb for helping wound healing. In 1971 I had multiple wounds from radical cancer surgery which wouldn’t heal over properly during some months of treatment with ray lamps and other procedures, and were a gateway to septic infection. However, Manuka honey and dressings infused with that honey were a lifesaver. I still keep Manuka honey on hand. As a former nurse, I know that honey has been used as a field dressing for soldiers’ wounds for centuries.
@@moewilson4605 Fair enough! As I said, I keep a jar for medical reasons. Edit: One of my granddaughters is a registered beekeeper. She has hives on her family’s farm near the Snowy Mountains (eastern side of Australia. I prefer her bees honey to Manuka honey for toast and freshly baked bread.
Did you see all the labs they used to test the product? That's why it's so expensive. Certification alone jacks up the price. Scientists don't work for free
This is a great marketing story, but there is no difference chemically. The fact that it is rare is it's only property worth talking about. Find honey from your local keeper, and that will be the best for you.
Right..... Since you don't live around that nature, how can the taste even be relevant to you. I agree whats local to you will be the best for you, because you can taste it.
I’ve had the pleasure of being gifted this honey by someone and I can tell you my thoughts on what it tastes like. It’s orders of magnitude better than cheap c50p honey, but comparing it to more expensive- say £4.50 to £7- honey jars I usually buy, it’s not much different. Personally I would say that it is better, however that my just be placebo. Personally I suggest people trying it because it tastes great and has a unique flavour to normal honey, but I wouldn’t pay the £73 (or $100 for Americans) it costs for it, and instead will stick with a much cheaper but almost as good honey. Update: I’m a professional singer now; and learning how this honey has medicinal properties with anti-inflammation and antibiotics, I now buys a few jars a month now. Haven’t noticed an increased proficiency since regular taking of authentic manuka honey. Wouldn’t suggest buying it often, though I’ll probably continue due to its ‘supposed’ medicinal properties, placebo or not.
I've spent $100 for 3 jars, 8oz jars... All differing grades. Haven't gotten my 575 jar yet.. But yeah im not buying any more lol, I should probably return the $49 jar i just got im poor... I thought I might have covid and was trying to prepare
I hadn’t realised Americans had to pay so much for a taste lol, in Hawkes bay there was a honey shop where you could taste test all sorts of honey for free.
It blows my mind to know that the honey I use on my leg ulcer to combat infection in the U.K comes from one plant in one tiny area of New Zealand! I respect this stuff no end, it saved my leg from amputation, and I have a new found respect for the people who discovered this rare , and hugely beneficial medicine.
every had mint honey? with the right amount of mint it is so good(the mint comes from catmint from which the bees get the nectar, so there's luck involved with getting the right m amount of mint.
I work as senior beekeeper here in New Zealand we chopper those hives from manuka site just to chase manuka honey.. Its cost the company 2850nzd per hour to bring those hives to get high grade manuka honey our average umf every year is 25umf 90tons of manuka honey for 3600 hives averaging 30 to 40 kg per hive..
In the examination of their antioxidant action, the dark Honey from Oak emerged as the strongest, followed by Fir Honey, Heather Honey, Chestnut Honey and Pine Honey. New Zealand's world-famous Manuka Honey ranks sixth.
@@svsv9 I would like to point out that my previous comment is not my personal opinion but a University study. All honeys have antiseptic and germicidal action due to the hydrogen peroxide it contains, its acidity and the high concentration of its sugars. I am not the right one to answer your question, I personally prefer the honey that comes from beekeeping prefectures with large botanical varieties and wildflowers. Thank you.
I was had a skin infection my doc prescribed Manuka honey in a ointment form he wasn't sure if it would work honestly his lack of enthusiasm made me feel like Il be back for a different prescription but it worked really Good actually the pain subsided quick and literally closed a open hole in my leg now I just have what looks like a healed gun shot wound.
@@lancefuatimu5749 I'm glad about the effect of honey ointment, I think it will help a lot of people. My view is that any thick honey would do the same job as manuka honey. I make a lotion for burns. Its history is lost in many generations before it reached my hands. It contains olive oil, frankincense, beeswax and bark from the tree "Sambucus nigra". It immediately stops the inflammation and leaves no mark on the burn. I gave you the burn ointment wanting to emphasize that we still have a lot to get from the bees.
Antioxidants are about long-term health. Preventing cancer, heart disease, aging, etc. Once you already have cancer the antioxidants aren't going to do much. The selling point of manuka honey is its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial, anti-microbial properties. That provides immediate solutions to immediate problems. If you treat a wound with manuka honey it will heal faster. If you treat your inflamed gums with manuka honey you will get immediate relief. Obviously plenty of people are going to peddle you antioxidant solutions you should take every day or whatever, but it's all nonsense. Just eat well, sleep well, try your best to avoid stress, and regularly exercise. Better then any regular antioxidant treatment, whether its manuka honey, fish oil or some "recently re-discovered" herbal tea you now need to take daily and pay absurd amounts for.
Here in Australia we have Leptospermums growing everywhere. All of our honeys have some percentage in them. And some of the Gum trees produce medicinal honey too. I once collected wild honey from a fallen hive on our farm and it tasted just like manuka, and almost black. Tasted incredible! Goodness only knows the health benefits of that stuff.
I live in Australia and have tasted a lot of different honey from here. Even though honey here has its own unique flavours, none taste like New Zealand Manuka honey. It might have the same properties but not the same taste.
@@debrawalker4642 unless it's manuka honey made in Australia. Reality is to get the taste and viscosity of manuka you need an environment close to homogeneity. While there are certainly natural environs in NZ and Australia that tick those boxes most manuka produced these days comes from plantations.
I am a master Esthetician in the state of Virginia. I have been using Manuka honey in my facial treatments for at least a decade! Manuka has sooo many beneficial properties that enhance the skin! I use it after extractions for its anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial benefits ( it reduces if not completely eliminates redness and inflammation caused by extractions). It can be used as a mask for sensitive skin, helping to calm the blood vessels and capillaries of the skin. It has superior hydrating properties. It balances the skins natural microbiome and pH levels! Also,..... if you ingest a spoonful of the Honey daily, it will help with allergies as well as boost your natural immune system!! I cannot say enough about how wonderful this beautiful honey is!!!💜🌸💜😊
My first job out of school was as a NZ bee keeper, funny thing was that manuka honey was the lowest priced honey at the time and bee keepers often sold it to food manufacturing. that was of course before it was discovered to have healing properties which we all knew about and would put manuka honey on skin infections etc. Manuka grows like a weed here and the government used to subsidize the cost of its removal . Farmers are actually actively planting it now and as the story said helicopters are being used to put hives into the back country in areas of manuka . manuka and its larger cousin Kanuka are excellent food smoking woods , beautiful flavor.
If you're wary of the price I would say this. Wait until you have an infection,then get it and see what happens. I had a 2 month chest infection and was contemplating antibiotics.Manuka destroyed the bacteria in 2 days.Try it.
I’m always really conflicted about artificially inflated prices on commodities like this. Like on one hand, many small areas around the world are known for one thing and their economy relies on it, so they go to great lengths to protect it. On the other hand, some places simply keep production low and controls tight just to keep the price up, similar to diamonds.
You can't tell someone they're eating super expensive honey and then expect an accurate account of it's flavor. Also all honey has antimicrobial properties.
All honey produce small amounts of hydrogen peroxide which make it antimicrobial. Manuka has a different chemical that is antimicrobial that is far more powerful. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mnfr.200700282
Business Insider: Why is Manuka Honey so Expensive. Seller: It's been shown in a laboratory to have these properties. Me: Uh, all raw honey has those properties.
@@gloria8093 different flower, different results. They may have the same properties but the taste/texure/smoothness is all different. Think of it like THC honey.
Manuka honey has anti-bacterial properties that rival conventional. It has countless studies showing its ability to fight MRSA. Conventional honey lacks the levels conventional raw/unpasteurized honey has.
As a bee keeper. It’s nice to hear that there are cool variations of honey out there. Personally, i keep bees just for the hell of it. But the honey is a nice bonus
I use manuka honey on the incision from my recent shoulder replacement. There are a few spots along the suture line that refuse to heal. The honey is amazing and is working so fast.
NZ has done a fantastic marketing job of convincing the public that Manuka honey is the best. NZ is good at getting added value from agricultural products. Also the branding of NZ as a clean green country has a lot to do with it. If manuka honey was produced in say the US or UK then it wouldnt attract the same price
It's expensive but worth every penny. Even my doctors agree that it can be used for a variety of problems. I first got a cold sore years ago. The one thing that worked for a long time was Abreva. It's stupidly expensive & I've paid up to $17USD for a tiny tube. When I learned about Manuka (and also about Stingless Bee or Meliponini ) honey, I bought a $35 jar (just under 8oz) of the UMF 15 at a rare discount from a certified brand (Steens). I could stick a toothpick into the jar for a tiny dab and apply that amount of honey to my lip at the starting itch of a cold sore. No cold sore would develop. I've never bought anything else again other than Manuka or Meliponini and I have not had a cold sore develop for around 7 years now. Even at UMF 10 works and the smallest jar lasts for a long time. I also put the honey on any burns I get from cooking. I rinse with it if I feel a toothache coming on. It just works. There are articles in medical journals that detail the effectiveness of Manuka.
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Remember local honey is the best. It might help your local bee keeper, the environment and pollution levels, but might also give health benefits like reduced allergic reactions against local pollens.
Most American honey suck so bad. So yes i am paying more for the stuff of my homeland.
@@susanosborne7713 ive heard most of american honey is fake?
Kevzy Dev yup, most of them don’t even contain 50% of the real thing.
Yes, a lot of them have syrup in them and aren’t natural, the more expensive stuff is usually real
@@iamthechair6328 here in NZ its Really easy to find good honey that doesn't cost too much, and local bee keepers will sell it quite cheap
ALL honey has anti-bacterial and anti-microbial properties.
Manuka honey is just the Gucci or Rolex of the honey business.
very very well said 👏🏼
Thats because its also slightly toxic, thats why they say you should never eat too much honey.
@Graham. It's just pure bullshit.
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Well, I can tell you the following:
I've never bought Manuka honey, but its texture really reminds me of the unprocessed honey that we make in the region of Foloi in Ilia, Greece, close to ancient Olympia. Although, it is different: it is made from oak and the arbutus unedo, a tree with a fruit similar to strawberries. But when unprocessed, it has a very fluid texture, with its taste being somewhat bitter, and then sweet, but with an extreme note all way through. Which indicates it has a lot of antioxidant properties. I would recommend that.
Thats because NZ Manuka has to be whipped according to NZ government regulations.
Australia also produces Manuka Honey (The Manuka Tree is actually Australian) but they do not whip it. Look for a Manuka Honey company that uses a cold extraction method :)
I want to try that honey from your region. Can you give me some info about it please? I'm also from Greece.
They are charging for the bee's travel expenses?
It costs bees a lot to run their beesiness and their product causes a real buzz.
@@techguy3424 damn that's good
well then i'll just call for a local one
The bees are probably on minimum wage so they'll need travel expenses lol 😉😂
Lol 😄😂
I'm actually a full time "professional" beekeeper, I've tasted and tried honey from all over the world too due to my work. The truth is that all RAW and UNPROCESSED honey is actually naturally anti bacterial and anti inflammatory, some more than others yes, but manuka honey does NOT top the chart in that regard. In my experience (and science backs this up), heather honey is superior to manuka in medicinal properties and costs a fraction of the price. Taste however is a matter of opinion.
Don't get me wrong, manuka honey is great for you and super tasty but the truth is that manuka honey is very well marketed, and is not the superfood people think it is. If you pay 100$ for a jar of this, then you're a victim of marketing.
Thanks for your comment! I bought Manuka Hkney the other day as someone recommended it to me (I didn't pay the full price as ot was on sale) but I'll definitely be looking for raw and unprocessed local honey though
you don’t need a ton of it when using it for medicinal reasons. i put it on a leg wound that didn’t want to heal. i had to reapply it four times a day & used it for three weeks and a 1oz container was more than enough. and the container was only $7. but you look kinda stupid saying you’re a beekeeper but then start talking about healthcare stuff.
@@misseselise3864 okay stranger on the internet. How do I look stupid? There’s no need to be rude. This is literally my field of work and has been for around 25 years. Medicine and honey go hand in hand, it’s not just a sweet tasty thing found in a jar. I wasn’t talking down Manuka honey, I literally said it was great, I was simply pointing out that the world is large and there are far better honeys out there.
I barely spoke about “health stuff”, although I’m qualified to do just that if I wanted to. If you got your Manuka honey cheap then that’s fantastic, good for you I guess.
@@Linear500 sources would go a long way if you dont want to be called a fool on the internet.
@@___meph___4547 haha seems that way! I didn’t expect people to be so rude over honey. I guess it is the internet after all.
Can't wait to put *_Supreme_* on it
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Zenn Lozanno on demand limited edition 😂
and it will cost 2000 dollar
also GUCCI,Louis vuitton
GUCCI X LV X SUPREME honey
The best honey I’ve ever had was when I was on vacation in Turkey. It was local to the village. The waiter gave us a jar from free. It was heavenly delicious.
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@@jamesmayle3787 🤡
Turkey has “Anzer Balı” which needs to be highlighted like Manuka. I’d admit that it’s very expensive like Manuka but very high quality. Apart from that, there are many other organic honeys in Turkey and they’re all “must-try”..
@@anarchistmaverick9507🤡
I live in NZ and i can tell you that whilst Manuka is a good honey, Native Bush honey is much more fudgey and caramelly at less than half the price. Manuka is overrated in my opinion.
I think a lot of people buy manuka honey for either when they are sick or catch cold or for use on the skin for skin problems like acne.
@@CherryFlower24 Just get regular honey, ginger, and chamomile tea at 1/100th of the price and you probably fight off your cold better than meme honey.
@@momothewitch I've tried both honey along with natural remedies and the manuka one (the real one) does faster and better the job imo.
@@CherryFlower24 Ever tried conventional medicine?
@@momothewitch I do too sometimes but not each time. I'd rather not overload my body with articifial chemical stuff since we are already a lot in contact with those on a daily basis
Spent all my life in New Zealand and never knew my broke ass was eating boujee honey.
SAME LMAO I FEEL SO FANCY RN
ikr lmao
😂💀
😂 😂 😂
You didn’t eat boujee honey even if you live in New Zealand unless you purchased an expensive option.
Most honey you’ll eat is honey made by feeding bees sugar water or collected from small farmers who will dilute their honey in order to sell more towards a commercial retailer. I recommend you purchase a cheaper alternative from a local farmers market as it’s likely to also contain Manuka if you wish to eat Manuka honey. The taste isn’t really that great though and there are plenty of other varieties that taste better. The part at the end where they got regular people to try boujee honey was quite dumb since the content of various nutrients and sugar in non-commercial honey is significantly higher as they’re not diluted hence better taste (literally more sugar).
This is just for that weird pantry flex.
lmao this seriously made me laugh xD
Manuka honey is actually the KING of honey, the medicinal properties are superb....
well if you care about honey
Totally agree
Very true
at first I read "weird PANTY flex" and was like hmmmm
The best honey I've had so far in my life was Greek thyme honey. I love it. I also had a decent American raw honey from the New York area. Was so tasty. There are lots of amazing, healthy honeys. I don't buy Manuka because it's too pricey for me, and I like to consume 2-3 tablespoons of honey per day.
I remember that I was visiting Vermont once and as I was driving through a rural area there was a beekeeper on the side of the road selling his honey, to this day it’s the best honey I’ve ever hard, I went back a couple years ago praying he was still selling it but I couldn’t find him anymore
Their honey might be good, but the marketing is definitely better
that's modern business marketing for ya
Exactly right, pure marketing and good branding. Nothing different or special whatsoever.
You mean the manuketing
@@vaarelsauce uh this honey is literally a life changer for those with autoimmune diseases
Ryan Rubidoux-Cosman do have any unbiased studies
Me: I should really go to bed it's pretty late...
*WHY IS MĀNUKA HONEY SO EXPENSIVE?*
Me: I don't NEED sleep I need *answers*
4:22 am be like.
5:21 am
7:11 be like
Same
Me at 3 am
Why Manuka honey so expensive?
"Because it is from New Zealand."
Yeah, that's a good reason.
Deven Kadne *finally my own kind*
That seems to be the only reason
please read my comment. thank you.
It’s only expensive because...
*it exists*
@@feifeifeiht Its such a big thing, Australians are now claiming the word 'Manuka' is an old Aboriginal word and are trying to use it in their honey. The UK courts gave NZ sole rights to the name, but Australias appealing it.
The Manuka tree (Leptospermum scoparium) is actually also native to Australia. It is part of the Myrtaceae family which is mostly endemic in Australia, with a few species found in New Zealand and South East Asia.
Typical New Zealand STEALING from Australia
@@tilapiadave3234 It's not stealing. The tree just happens to grow in both places. Calm down.
@@tilapiadave3234 typical Aussie lying out his teeth.
@@slamyourheadin9449 NZ is just a part of the colony of NSW
@@chizzieshark STOLEN,,, LMAO
"I have a cheaper and faster way of testing for honey." - Winneth D. Pooh Phd.
Underrated comment
The Chinese president will love that.
Corny
Magnus McCloud why does everyone think our products are bad, I mean for centuries china have been known for expensive and great quality items...
Quality Tested from China
So if it’s expensive because Bee has to travel 6kms to collect it. How much the bee is paid??
Death from the 👑
All bees travel the same range of distances
No it’s expensive because of what the bees eat, and the fact it is only made in New Zealand
Victoria xo so bees have a NZ passport?
More then a uber driver
And here I thought $5.99 honey was too expensive
Roni it is I don’t know we’re u be getting honey from
@pokerboss108 u mean "Artificial Honey"
used to eat it when sick.... eat or drink it with lime.
100$ / 100g is what you should pay. Those bees invest a damn huge amount of work for that sweet sin
DroidTech get you an African friend my mum brings them to me from
Our village of free and it doesn’t cost her more than $5
I use honey only from local hives because the health benefits are better, and it helps the smaller beekeepers.
However, I have seen Manuka honey destroy MRSA and save a boys foot and leg from amputation (about 15 years ago). I don’t know if any other honey would have but the Manuka definitely did.
bullshit😂
Whats MRSA?
Just look up Medihoney
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Why is this so expensive?
"New Zealand."
You require a large area in Manuka + time, for the UMF Manuka to rise to the surface of the extracted 'honey'. There's also limits, to where Manuka will grow & even then, there's variations in the amount & quality of the processed nectar. The honey, also takes on some of the propertys of the tree, which are, antimicrobial - viruse & bacteria & it's also antifungal.
The limited flowering season doesn't help the costs - I checked my local supermarkets pricing for Manuka honey, today - the cheapest, has a lot of natural sugars in it & appears like creamed honey, was $6.00, the most expensive they had was over $40.00. Go to a speacilst honey shop and there will be high UMF Manuka honey, for between $20.00, & over $100.00, depending on the UMF number, which relates directly, to its medicinal benifits.
08/02/2021 - A Dannevirke business is reaping the benefits of its prized manuka honey which is flying off the shelves at Harrods for nearly $5000 a jar.
"As far as we're aware it's the highest grade manuka honey that's ever been produced in the world," says True Honey Company founder and CEO Jim McMillan.
The batch of honey is so rare that True Honey Company's sold all 200 jars exclusively to Harrods in London, fetching almost $5000 a pop....!!!
Canadian clover rules!
@@marcbee1234 if Canadian clover honey rules, why is it that many Apiarists get their Queens from New Zealand ? - just like a lot of American Apiarists..
Clover honey, is clover honey, no matter where you grow / harvest it.
@@davidarundel6187 Where you get your queens has nothing to do with honey made by bees, volume yes but end product no. I worked 400 bee hives in Southern California for many years, I've tried Manuka it's good but not nearly as impressive as Canadian clover or California's sage, orange, alfalfa or blue curl which is the best of the best in it's pure form but extremely rare.
"Because the bees have to travel 6km to retrieve the honey..."
Oh yeah that must really be hard for you to watch the bees do all that work. How can they charge for the bees traveling?!? Do they pay the bees gas money? Lol
Lol
The poor guy is American give him a break.
@@bricksburger5409 I actually don't im English but I translated for the Americans ironically lol.
@@BobBrown. I actually don't im English but I translated for the Americans ironically lol
a little bit later he says "in New Zealand we have wind and we have rain and all the rest of it..." as if that is a special hardship that makes collecting honey more difficult in New Zealand than it is in the rest of the world. that guy is an idiot just stringing words together to sound like he is explaining something really complex, while actually saying nothing at all of actual substance.
Why is it so expensive? In five words: It's rare and it's hyped.
It aint hyped. This shit tastes good.
Yeah. Ordinary honey tastes like shit.
It's is It is which is 2 so it's actually 7 words.
The 5 words you're looking for are:
Rare Trendy Flexible Gucci Honey
Manuka ain't rare we use it for firewood lol all this testing and buzz words is used to charge so much haha
It's more antimicrobial. It works. Trust me
OMG it's delicious tastes like $100 a teaspoon 😂 I think this specific honey may have good characteristics but it is way overhyped marketed down the throat like many other things in the world.
the anti bacterial properties are real tho, proven thru lab tests, so...
Me : I have to study
RUclips : why Manuka honey is so expensive ?
Me : good question
Very intresting question
Stolennn
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Answer: Marketing
Same tbh
1 minute watching this video and I got one word in my head. MARKETING
Especially the medical part. It’s so obvious that you can smell the bullshit from 500km away.
@@masterkamen371
EVERY real honey has anti-microbiotical properties, and the honey from every plant will taste, smell and look differently, so yeah, marketing.
@@Alias_Anybody everything with a really high sugar content will have anti-microbial properties. Even just saturated sugar water
Well they ain't getting my attention not the way he said Māori that just pissed me off
It’s expensive because it has incredible healing factors the government doesn’t want you to know...blind fools.
I edited my comment so you'd never know why did it get so many likes 😉
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂brings back so many memories
New Zealand
Xi Jin ping
Gladly 😂🥰
i think the fact that it is quality controlled is what appeals to me. So much honey is blended with sugars
80's: why is gold so expensive?
90's: why is dinos so expensive?
2009: why is a home so expensive?
2019: WHY IS EVERYTHING EXPENSIVE?
The rise in minimum wage is the single most contributing factor in the skyrocketing cost of basic goods and services. Here in the US anyway.
Because we are polluting the earth to the max so we will suffer in 2025
Resouses
@@mikebather6688 explain this
Dino’s?
As a beekeeper, this is pure marketing with little to no facts involved. There is zero way to limit bees from harvesting everything flowering in the area.
Are you serious ?
They test it for markers from the flower.
But honestly I've just realized I been ripped off lol, I spent $100 on honey
This is just dirty homey these bees are mixing their pollen stores and honey stores which is making this muddy honey.
I grew up and live in New Zealand and eaten this honey heaps. You can taste the difference in flavour and quality. so you saying its a marketing stunt just isn't true you obviously hadn't had it much or at all
But also in saying that I never paid for it ever. hahaha personally I wouldn't pay $100
Every honey has antibacterial properties :|
Most honey you buy is sugary crap
@@unclevladimirovich Any honey is basically sugar with flavour and extra properties besides being sweet.
@@Harikusa Try it then tell me it's all the same, I swear
Harikusa I think what the person meant is that most honeys are FAKE. some bee keepers feed them sugar water and what they reproduce is far from actual honey.
Raw honey is best, look for crystallization
Can every honey kill antibiotic resistant bacteria though? www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/113257021/mnuka-honey-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-found-in-cystic-fibrosis
I grew up in New Zealand, and until I was 12, I didn't even know what Manuka trees and flowers looked like. Which was pretty stupid cause our primary school had a couple growing near the backfield.
I also remember my grandmother buying some to help her with her health problems.
The real reason anything is expensive;
Someone will Pay for it
people eventually would buy anything that has a price tag on it
If you nail together a couple 2 x 4's in a way that has never been done before, somebody will buy it from you! LOL
Like any "Delicacy", Top Dollar.
That's how economics works, yes.
Ima sell my poo one day
Waiter, bring me your FINEST bee vomit.
LOL
Looool
I have tried it is so smooth.
Lol somehow i read the sentence with an english voice
Bee shit and puke
_Is Manuka honey really worth 100 times more than other honey?_
No.
Glad to be of service.
Me, a New Zealander, who wants a strong export market: Shh!
As I read this comment he said that same thing
Thanks man the world need more people like you
manuka is for those rich people that smoke marijuanna
Gotta love the "benefits" over regular honey
I used manuka honey many years and it does help with stomachache and period pain very effective in a short time, which no other honeys can do. My husband however prefer local honey and it helps with his allergies
Oh I use it for the same purpose. Plus, against the cold/flu, too. Especially the nasty coughing… it immediately helps me get rid of it. I take 2-3 tbs. daily.
New Zealand government should install an actual Manuka Honey bank, like how the Canadians made maple syrup bank.
lol what ??? Really ? A Bank of maple syrup ??? :O
I’m Canadian and I’ve never heard of that maybe your right because there is lots of weird stuff nowadays lol
Yes there is in Canada. It is price controlled by the Federation
@@veegtec that's crazy 😮
Also it s less cool than a bank made of mapple syrup. Also it would harm the consumer to have controlled price no? Meh whatever I don't even eat that much mapple syrup
@@sitrakamatthieu it is crazy and there are pros and cons to it apparently. Some say that this federation means that maple syrup harvesters have a steady stream of profit that they can live off. Here is a link to an episode made by Netflix.
uproxx.com/tv/maple-syrup-heist-documentary-netflix-dirty-money/
It's already gucci of honey industry.
*Slap a SUPREME tag in it, it'll double the price.*
MDNGHT or the Apple logo
I love honey, every where I go to, I try their local honey, and let me tell you the best honey I've had is from mexico, near the wineries south of Ensenada. I could taste the flowers!!! it was an explosion of colorful fields and flowers in my mouth. I've never had anything like it, and the royal jelly, the best!
Edit... and it cost less than $20 USD!
Bee puke!
Yeah but no one cares about Mexican honey tho stick to tacos bro
Does it turn you on? It sure as hell sounds like it does
are you sure that was honey ?
Why are all the replies so salty, damn guys chill
It's the health benefits that make it worth it. A medicinal super honey for sure.
Once i bought 32 different local honeys from Portugal and tasted all of them in two sessions. It is incredible the different tastes, textutes and colors from honey. Aromas were from jasmine flowers to coffee, orange to eucaliptus, wood taste etc. Some of the best flavours were from local producers without any brand.
That coffee and orange both sound pretty good. I would have loved to do that experiment
The best honey I ever had was some local honey from a hive near a mint field. Delicious.
Would be better if the hive near a weed farm
@@danghoangluong2942 Bruh y you on youtube sharing your ideas? Get to work boi.
@@LaughableSynonyms
Well it would be an interesting honey.
@@danghoangluong2942 when you consume it you are suddenly able to talk to the bees
Minty sweet homey
My parents used to get so mad at us when we would put Manuka honey in our tea instead of sugar. To me, honey was honey, I didn't see what the big deal was. Until I saw it on a shelf in the shop. Sorry mum and dad🙏😭
🤣🤣🤣
Shit costs £100 lol
They could’ve just got normal honey along with the manuka
@@drej1934 They do get normal honey as well, but to me there wasn't any difference at the time. Obviously now I know better. Besides they haven't bought manuka honey in quite a while so normal honey it is😅
@@frcn31 Oof £100? That's quite a lot, the one my parents bought was like €40 for a small jar. It's still pricey compared to regular honey though.
So thoughtful of you to make me wait till the very end of the video to talk about taste.
Buy honey so you can flex with it
A gem collection for bio chemists
Haven't heard that since 2016
J González what's the joke?
ThER it’s pure liquid gold
In the hood they respect this shitt
0:42. “The fact that it comes from New Zealand, that gives it a premium just to start with.” Oh really? Why?
0:47. “And because the bee travels up to about six kilometres to collect this honey”... What has that got to do with the high price of Manuka honey?
1. I like dogs 🐕
2. Idk maybe the bees wasn't their fair share or something
Conclusion:
Rich people like it so its expensive .-.
Labor cost😂😂😂
Nothing. I'm in NZ, used to be a beekeeper and this vid is bull. Mānuka is NOT rare. In many places it is the most common flowering plant and millions are being planted for the honey industry every year. Also, the season doesn't last just a couple of weeks. Mānuka flowers at different times in different parts of the country so beekeepers move their hives all around making the season last months. When a good flow is on a well-managed hive can produce upwards of 60kgs of honey in a single site. As for healing properties, all honey is anti-bacterial etc by necessity, Mānuka is not special in this regard. The NZ Mānuka honey industry is a scam tbh.
@Isaac every bee travels up to an 4 mile radius from their hive.
EVERYTHING in new Zealand is expensive
I raise honey bees. This year I collected 70 quarts from two hives. I am fortunate to have gotten 40 acres of unproductive farm ground into a "bird, butterfly and bee flower program" about 3 years ago. It's a contract 10 year program. I seeded with anapproved and specified seed mix and now there are literally millions and millions of flowers blooming all through the growing season. My bees are 20 feet away from all this goodness so they don't have to fly far to get what they need, so their production is crazy huge! This year's honey was crystal clear as water! The last 11 quarts this fall had a tiny stain of yellow to it ( from the last flowers blooming, they were Asters) but the taste of the honey this year was truely remarkable! And the bees dried it to a very thick consistently. This year's harvest is for family only, I don't sell this quality of honey. I sell the other years honey for $ 40 quart. It is as clear as corn syrup and has a very clean honey taste with no lingering foulness. Everyone else's honey around here is much darker and has lingering various tastes compared to these hives honey. It's all about the types flowers and quantities available. The bees will pick and choose the right flowers for perfect honey IF the flowers and quantities are there. They will use whatever is available if they have to but, let them have a choice and they make the perfect honey. I use a new kind of hive called a Flow Hive. No processing honey for me ever again!
Sounds like a great honey you have here. Any chance we could buy some of your honey ?
Definitely interested in buying some of your honey
I probably can't buy your honey, but I'm willing to learn more. I got interested ☺.
I thought all honey was yellowish but color me surprised
Great, natural honey, like everything else, it's easier to get the scientists in to make it into frankenstein food. Max profit, enough is never enough when profit is concerned,
It's like Tupelo honey , made from the Tupelo tree that only grows along the river in Wewahitchka Florida. The taste is lighter and sweeter. Great for arthritis and other ailments. It's not cheap but it's affordable ☺
And Van Morrison wrote a song about it!
"does it taste different to normal honey?" Dude all honey tastes different, it depends what flowers the bees have been too and what blending the company's do to get the taste profiles they want.
It taste like a medicine. It has strong weird tast to me. You may like it idk .
I agree, almost tastes wrong to be eating.
It’s creamy like really creamy and stretchy
Tastes quite good, we used to have it all the time when I was a kid. The price has skyrocketed since foreigners discovered it!
My family works in the distribution and retail of Non-commercial Honey and we have quite a large collection of honey from various sources. Harvest season (Affects Flowers), and Location are the biggest factors towards taste.
Manuka honey is definitely not on top in terms of taste as it has a bitter taste and some people think it tastes like medicine so it definitely doesn’t deserve all this attention. In terms of health properties there really isn’t any proven health benefits to Manuka and they indirectly admitted it in the video.
I recommend you support your local beekeepers and purchase honey from them. You’d may even be surprised at how affordable it is considering the taste.
0:35 Only native to New Zealand
1:34 Oh yeah it’s also in Australia btw
Yep there are over 80 varieties in Australia.
Might actually have come to NZ from Australia
@@louis2867 No because the plant can be found in NZ so why would they get it from Australia if they have their own?
@@louis2867 Maybe originally (thousands/millions of years ago)
@@oliverburnette1179 oh I get you
I like how the fist girl thought it was the greatest thing she had ever had and the other people where like “yah it’s pretty much thick honey”
It’s also less sweet and has a very smooth and delicate texture. Can’t rlly describe it, rlly have to try it yourself to know :)
She fists people?
@@ducamvinh4462 yes. Vigorously
@@iamthefuss934 sounds like wife material
@@ducamvinh4462 hey now🥵😏
Taste like meds. Delicious isn’t exactly the term I would use, but I’ve never known a remedy that actually kicks colds and coughs faster. I’m sold on manuka honey.
looks like Caramel.
I am sure it tastes like it too.
Sagar Shah
actually maybe so.
I have had it and it actually taste some what salty and a bit more sweeter than regular honey. Along with its thick texture. But it doesn’t completely taste like Carmel, but it sort of has that taste and texture.
@@awes0me811 very true
It doesn’t. It tastes like medicine, a really weird medicine. Total let down.
l think it's delicious. It melts in your mouth like cotton candy.
Whinnie the Pooh would like to know your location
Hahahaaaaa
😫
@The Alchemist nope,the original winnie the pooh
Is that a China reference. China has a way of stealing the market away and selling counterfeit items. CCP leader has the nickname Whinnie the Pooh.
Winnie
Soon honey itself is going to be expensive if we don’t take care
We are. The UK has made a sanctuary spanning many miles long for just bees
Clover honey
DSD PROTO for real all the honey in the store is fake
Ram I mean the cheap ones are often mixed with some kind of other shit like sugar or something else... But there’s the more expensive ones that are all natural...
Ram But yeah you are kinda right
This honey is extremely help with my Asthma. It's fully justified to do more researching on respiratory honey medicine. I want to take a minute to take about the bees. We need to protect their environment by pressuring governments into massive reforestation projects. This year has been a nightmare for our forests. I enjoyed learning more about the honey.
The creamy texture is just because it’s creamed/crystallized honey. The flavor is what should be the key factor
@Draggy654 you can get creamy or runny honey of any variety. It is just a matter on how it is processed and it is not unique to Manuka.
pat fonta there are many things wrong with this comment included your spelling of licked.
Manuka honey tastes differently though. It's kinda like caramel and doesn't have the same overpowering sugar taste some other, cheaper, honeys do.
@@leerwesen that is because of how it is processed.
Might as well put some gold in it
That would ruin it
@@lits0_042 can The Metal;Gold rot?
@@VincentGonzalezVeg it's already liquid gold
@@lits0_042 you don't say!
@@VincentGonzalezVeg being an inorganic metal the answer is no.
Before Lab Test: $9 per hundred gram
After Lab Test: $99 per hundred gram
imagine direct price from the farmer $1-3
@@koopasayer5999 so sad
Lol
It tastes very similar but different it can be a bit less harsh, more smooth, creamy than regular honey, the texture is one of the main differences I'd say. I still love regular honey and honestly I think they both have their own places to be used for example I use manuka honey to mix with peanut butter, and other foods I also eat it raw sometimes, but I use regular honey to sweeten drinks & things like that. I'd definitely say if you haven't you should try manuka honey . Although where i live if a regular sized like maybe 16-20 oz container of honey costs $10.00-$15.00 manuka costs $29.99-$35.00 on average so yeah its not cheap!
00:48 "the bee travels up to six kilometres"
The fuel cost alone is very high and New Zealand is pretty far too.
That explains it.
good one
😂😂
Because people have fallen for the marketing.
"the bee travels 6 kilometres". Erm, move the hives closer to the plants?
There is no need to. 6 km is more than enough for set of hives to collect honey to a full capacity. If you have bigger spot, you just place another bee hivery.
Naaah bee need to maintain some body weight and fat percentage and for that they need to workout n burn some calories so they do jog to the hives.
which is why they lift the hives by helicopter from the middle of the forest.
It's not always practical especially if you don't own the land the manuka is growing on.
Some of the bees are so rich now that they have bought cars to help with travelling so far.... But they'll only buy one car... The volkswagen
BEETIL ! 😏
I would have liked to see a comparison of anti-bacterial properties between Manuka honey and other honey. To my knowledge all honey has these properties. Instead of buying overpriced Manuka honey, I would instead buy whole honeycomb. Whole honeycomb is said to retain more of the benefits of the honey because the honey is sealed in the hexagonal chambers and does not come into contact with air until the very moment you eat it. I don't think it would be far fetched to say it is more beneficial than Manuka honey for probably half the price.
the real joke is that the anti-bacterial properties of honey only work when used topically. And I'm pretty sure those properties are just because of the high sugar concentration and you could get them from hfcs too
@@jypsridic The anti-bacterial properties work when taken internally. Mix a tiny bit with Bragg's apple cider vinegar to help start digestion and kill bad germs you've inadvertently ingested.
@@veganconservative1109 No, you just believe psuedoscience nonsense.
Do you even know what honey does to bacteria that makes it anti-microbial?
Also drinking vinegar is literally pointless.
@@veganconservative1109 Lmao the levels of bullshittery of your comment is unreal.
@@jypsridic Yeah, if at all. The antibacterial properties of honey largely stem from its extremely hydrophilic nature; it wants to suck up lots of water. So much so that it literally sucks up the water closed by the membranes of bacteria, thus killing them and being antibacterial. When diluted, for example through saliva in the mouth or in water, most if not basically all of that antibacterial nature is lost. Its all a big fking scam
Stingless Bee honey is beautiful 🍯 if you get the opportunity, try it!
I am a bee keeper in Australia and something I've found interesting is each different species of stingless bee's honey have a very unique taste between them.
Some build their nests using only wax which makes it taste very sweet, others such as Tetragonula Carbonaria - use tree resins. Because they build their honey pots using resins it gives it a very interesting taste and also said to have antimicrobial qualities too, something to think of is that the resin they use itself is secreted as a defence mechanism from plants. Overseas there's a species that encorporates poo into the nest structure, though I can't imagine that'd be nice.
Thanks for the vid!
If it can grow my hair back, then it worth the price
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😜 no bro sorry. I'm a New Zealander and while I can tell you it has been used for decades to treat necrotic deep tissue ulcerated wounds and is better than conventional antibiotics for this, it can't regrow hair.
Be bald and bold bro
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It's for those who want the best regardless!
If it doesn't cure cancer, diabetes etc., will there be any takers?
Perhaps beauty products will be the biggest buyers. The users would have to have money pouring out of their sweat glands and who knows ; from where else!
I was slathered with manuka honey by my Maori hosts when I had a bad sunburn visiting NZ. Thought it was ridiculous but the swelling/redness from the sunburn disappeared within a couple hours. Mind blown.
Just info for anyone who might experience similar case. I had a bad case gastritis and gastric ulcer when i was pregnant with my first daughter, but due to restrictions i couldn't take omeprazole and typical antacid wont do. It turns out that taking a spoonful of this honey (I had the UMF 15+ to 20+) every morning dan before sleeping did lessen the pain somehow. Honestly, that high UMF made it tasted horrible and more like medicine than honey, but at least I got through both pregnancies by consuming it as a substitute to my gastric medication. As for the price, there's a varying degree for different brand. I dont know which one is the best in terms of value and effect but I knew it did help in my case. I think its expensive because of the narrow harvesting window (2-6 weeks per year?)
that's just honey in general
@@ArthropodJay It's not, the UMF rating is what determines honeys antimicrobial, antiviral and antibiotic properties. Processed honey has very little to none of these properties as it is highly processed and not sourced the same way. The evidence is in the science.
I wish if I can afford it because I have a medical condition :( , Do you think you can help me out with it ?
@@markmaxwell4890 Try local honey.
@@markmaxwell4890 Check at Costco
I can attest to the fact that Manuka is superb for helping wound healing. In 1971 I had multiple wounds from radical cancer surgery which wouldn’t heal over properly during some months of treatment with ray lamps and other procedures, and were a gateway to septic infection. However, Manuka honey and dressings infused with that honey were a lifesaver. I still keep Manuka honey on hand.
As a former nurse, I know that honey has been used as a field dressing for soldiers’ wounds for centuries.
Except I just want the honey to enjoy in my yogurt, on my toast or in cooking. Will never buy this Rolex brand of honey.
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Fair enough! As I said, I keep a jar for medical reasons.
Edit: One of my granddaughters is a registered beekeeper. She has hives on her family’s farm near the Snowy Mountains (eastern side of Australia. I prefer her bees honey to Manuka honey for toast and freshly baked bread.
Let me save you time: no reason at all.
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Did you see all the labs they used to test the product? That's why it's so expensive. Certification alone jacks up the price. Scientists don't work for free
@@solortus yeah but your saying theyre being extra which comes back to the original comment for no reason at all
@@r7h361 There is a reason and I just said it. You're contradicting yourself.
Νο reason at all..the rest is marketing!
This is a great marketing story, but there is no difference chemically. The fact that it is rare is it's only property worth talking about. Find honey from your local keeper, and that will be the best for you.
But bees travel 6km just to gather the nectar and it's made in New Zeeland dooood! You gotta pay for that xD
Right..... Since you don't live around that nature, how can the taste even be relevant to you. I agree whats local to you will be the best for you, because you can taste it.
“no difference chemically”? you wouldn’t even be able to differentiate the sorts of honey by taste if they had the exact same compounds, lol.
There's a difference. It has special anti microbial properties
@@michaela6701 Like ANY honey (that shit sold in US supermarkets is not honey)
I’ve had the pleasure of being gifted this honey by someone and I can tell you my thoughts on what it tastes like. It’s orders of magnitude better than cheap c50p honey, but comparing it to more expensive- say £4.50 to £7- honey jars I usually buy, it’s not much different. Personally I would say that it is better, however that my just be placebo. Personally I suggest people trying it because it tastes great and has a unique flavour to normal honey, but I wouldn’t pay the £73 (or $100 for Americans) it costs for it, and instead will stick with a much cheaper but almost as good honey.
Update: I’m a professional singer now; and learning how this honey has medicinal properties with anti-inflammation and antibiotics, I now buys a few jars a month now. Haven’t noticed an increased proficiency since regular taking of authentic manuka honey. Wouldn’t suggest buying it often, though I’ll probably continue due to its ‘supposed’ medicinal properties, placebo or not.
I've spent $100 for 3 jars, 8oz jars...
All differing grades.
Haven't gotten my 575 jar yet..
But yeah im not buying any more lol, I should probably return the $49 jar i just got im poor... I thought I might have covid and was trying to prepare
I hadn’t realised Americans had to pay so much for a taste lol, in Hawkes bay there was a honey shop where you could taste test all sorts of honey for free.
Looks like slightly-expensive honey is fine then
@@ashtar3876 slightly expensive costing 100 times more than normal honey?
I've tried it. The taste is awful compared to regular honey, and the texture is gritty.
I wanna try Mānuka because it looks so good. The texture and consistency is similar to caramel.
It blows my mind to know that the honey I use on my leg ulcer to combat infection in the U.K comes from one plant in one tiny area of New Zealand! I respect this stuff no end, it saved my leg from amputation, and I have a new found respect for the people who discovered this rare , and hugely beneficial medicine.
You do know normal honey is just as beneficial because it also has anti bacterial and microbial contents. But hey feed into the rich people hype
@@jaredocana649 been reading too many comments boi
@@LaughableSynonyms yeah because there is so much information you can find out for free on the internet but people are too stupid to google
@@jaredocana649 It seems to apply to you in this case, since you are so unduly convinced that all honeys are equal.
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Actually, HE is correct, and you're just being a dipstick..!!!
From new zealand here, i don't buy Manuka due to price but it is definitely the best tasting honey I've had
It’s expensive in New Zealand ??
@@m.h.9597 wait you can apply honey directly at a wound?? its not just for eating?
It's expensive here depending on the grade, but outside of NZ it's easily twice the price.
every had mint honey? with the right amount of mint it is so good(the mint comes from catmint from which the bees get the nectar, so there's luck involved with getting the right m amount of mint.
@@deletice although you asked the main commenter, i’ll add my own opinion. i, personally, don’t like mint honey, i prefer mixed from greece or italy
Until I see 2 Chainz with this product it ain't that expensive
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I work as senior beekeeper here in New Zealand we chopper those hives from manuka site just to chase manuka honey.. Its cost the company 2850nzd per hour to bring those hives to get high grade manuka honey our average umf every year is 25umf 90tons of manuka honey for 3600 hives averaging 30 to 40 kg per hive..
Do you add chemical to the honey
@@mohammad.Du93 They add LSD 🤩
@@NoNORADon911 😂
Poor small tiny bee they put so much effort in collecting nectar and you people steal from them.
In the examination of their antioxidant action, the dark Honey from Oak emerged as the strongest, followed by Fir Honey, Heather Honey, Chestnut Honey and Pine Honey. New Zealand's world-famous Manuka Honey ranks sixth.
May you point me which Honey is the best antimicrobial?
@@svsv9 I would like to point out that my previous comment is not my personal opinion but a University study. All honeys have antiseptic and germicidal action due to the hydrogen peroxide it contains, its acidity and the high concentration of its sugars. I am not the right one to answer your question, I personally prefer the honey that comes from beekeeping prefectures with large botanical varieties and wildflowers. Thank you.
I was had a skin infection my doc prescribed Manuka honey in a ointment form he wasn't sure if it would work honestly his lack of enthusiasm made me feel like Il be back for a different prescription but it worked really Good actually the pain subsided quick and literally closed a open hole in my leg now I just have what looks like a healed gun shot wound.
@@lancefuatimu5749 I'm glad about the effect of honey ointment, I think it will help a lot of people. My view is that any thick honey would do the same job as manuka honey. I make a lotion for burns. Its history is lost in many generations before it reached my hands. It contains olive oil, frankincense, beeswax and bark from the tree "Sambucus nigra". It immediately stops the inflammation and leaves no mark on the burn. I gave you the burn ointment wanting to emphasize that we still have a lot to get from the bees.
Antioxidants are about long-term health. Preventing cancer, heart disease, aging, etc. Once you already have cancer the antioxidants aren't going to do much.
The selling point of manuka honey is its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial, anti-microbial properties. That provides immediate solutions to immediate problems. If you treat a wound with manuka honey it will heal faster. If you treat your inflamed gums with manuka honey you will get immediate relief. Obviously plenty of people are going to peddle you antioxidant solutions you should take every day or whatever, but it's all nonsense. Just eat well, sleep well, try your best to avoid stress, and regularly exercise. Better then any regular antioxidant treatment, whether its manuka honey, fish oil or some "recently re-discovered" herbal tea you now need to take daily and pay absurd amounts for.
It honestly looks scrumptious... can’t wait to see which rapper flexes with this and tries to rhyme it with Manuka 😂😂😂
"I swish it from deep I'm a shooter, the shot too sweet like manuka" - lil Sleepy
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@@Iaintsayinnothin.. I shoot it high like bazooka sweet like manuka ...
Here in Australia we have Leptospermums growing everywhere. All of our honeys have some percentage in them. And some of the Gum trees produce medicinal honey too. I once collected wild honey from a fallen hive on our farm and it tasted just like manuka, and almost black. Tasted incredible! Goodness only knows the health benefits of that stuff.
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I live in Australia and have tasted a lot of different honey from here.
Even though honey here has its own unique flavours, none taste like New Zealand Manuka honey.
It might have the same properties but not the same taste.
@@debrawalker4642 unless it's manuka honey made in Australia. Reality is to get the taste and viscosity of manuka you need an environment close to homogeneity. While there are certainly natural environs in NZ and Australia that tick those boxes most manuka produced these days comes from plantations.
I'm an Australian beekeeper. All raw honey that has not been pasteurised is medicinal.
Saved my friends life..
Burn wounds ( a 80yo diabetic) would not heal for months..
He used this and healed in two weeks.
New Zealand government: We want to define what authentic Manuka honey is... so let's make lables as confusing as possible.
I just imagine fancy bees delicately mixing the nectar until a head chef bee comes to taste it and send it off
thats a delightful mental image XD
I am a master Esthetician in the state of Virginia. I have been using Manuka honey in my facial treatments for at least a decade! Manuka has sooo many beneficial properties that enhance the skin! I use it after extractions for its anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial benefits ( it reduces if not completely eliminates redness and inflammation caused by extractions). It can be used as a mask for sensitive skin, helping to calm the blood vessels and capillaries of the skin. It has superior hydrating properties. It balances the skins natural microbiome and pH levels! Also,..... if you ingest a spoonful of the Honey daily, it will help with allergies as well as boost your natural immune system!! I cannot say enough about how wonderful this beautiful honey is!!!💜🌸💜😊
We use manuka honey to coat severe wounds on dogs in the vet world. It does an amazing job for the healing process.
My first job out of school was as a NZ bee keeper, funny thing was that manuka honey was the lowest priced honey at the time and bee keepers often sold it to food manufacturing. that was of course before it was discovered to have healing properties which we all knew about and would put manuka honey on skin infections etc. Manuka grows like a weed here and the government used to subsidize the cost of its removal . Farmers are actually actively planting it now and as the story said helicopters are being used to put hives into the back country in areas of manuka . manuka and its larger cousin Kanuka are excellent food smoking woods , beautiful flavor.
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Yes bro. I used to scrub cut this down with a slasher and a chainsaw in my younger days. Who knew lol
All honey has health benefits, Manuka isnt even in the top 5. It's pure marketing
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 you need to know how to use it aye...properly
I bought the first Manuka honey 11 years ago on my trip to NZ. Since then I always have it in my pantry.
Flex that shit.
Weird flex but ok
I wish if I can afford it because I have a medical condition :( , Do you think you can help me out with it ?
just put airpods in it
md sahif hossain and label it with supreme
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I’m wearing AirPods right now
And add some *gucci*
In the world of audio, earpods are cheap (and garbage)
If you're wary of the price I would say this. Wait until you have an infection,then get it and see what happens. I had a 2 month chest infection and was contemplating antibiotics.Manuka destroyed the bacteria in 2 days.Try it.
I’m always really conflicted about artificially inflated prices on commodities like this. Like on one hand, many small areas around the world are known for one thing and their economy relies on it, so they go to great lengths to protect it.
On the other hand, some places simply keep production low and controls tight just to keep the price up, similar to diamonds.
You can't tell someone they're eating super expensive honey and then expect an accurate account of it's flavor. Also all honey has antimicrobial properties.
TheDoubleg94 have you ever tasted this honey? I thought it tasted like medicine. It looks so good but tastes terrible.
All honey produce small amounts of hydrogen peroxide which make it antimicrobial. Manuka has a different chemical that is antimicrobial that is far more powerful. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mnfr.200700282
Glitter Pig I’ve tried it before, I don’t think it tastes that bad
My mom got some, it has a unique flavor. But I prefer regular honey.
Carol Rao I’m a very picky eater. I’m glad you like it!
Business Insider: Why is Manuka Honey so Expensive.
Seller: It's been shown in a laboratory to have these properties.
Me: Uh, all raw honey has those properties.
Not really, there is really a difference between honey branding for what bees consum
@@pruviu3577 The properties they listed are universal in raw honey. Or at least non contaminated raw honey.
@@gloria8093 different flower, different results. They may have the same properties but the taste/texure/smoothness is all different. Think of it like THC honey.
@@chromerotica I'm not convinced, but I'm not a bee expert.
Manuka honey has anti-bacterial properties that rival conventional. It has countless studies showing its ability to fight MRSA. Conventional honey lacks the levels conventional raw/unpasteurized honey has.
Manuka helped clear my Bronchitis… It was very helpful to my recovery.
2:37 am i the only one really impressed by the speed in which he said these compounds?
Nope, he is just smart.
Manuka honey is delicious! I always thought it was expensive because it tasted so good. You learn something every day!
I wish if I can afford it because I have a medical condition :( , Do you think you can help me out with it ?
As a bee keeper. It’s nice to hear that there are cool variations of honey out there. Personally, i keep bees just for the hell of it. But the honey is a nice bonus
I use manuka honey on the incision from my recent shoulder replacement. There are a few spots along the suture line that refuse to heal. The honey is amazing and is working so fast.
NZ has done a fantastic marketing job of convincing the public that Manuka honey is the best. NZ is good at getting added value from agricultural products. Also the branding of NZ as a clean green country has a lot to do with it. If manuka honey was produced in say the US or UK then it wouldnt attract the same price
Best tasting honey I’ve ever had, recommend it even for medicinal purposes
I had some when I was in New Zealand.... it’s so good!!! I love it.
It's expensive but worth every penny. Even my doctors agree that it can be used for a variety of problems. I first got a cold sore years ago. The one thing that worked for a long time was Abreva. It's stupidly expensive & I've paid up to $17USD for a tiny tube. When I learned about Manuka (and also about Stingless Bee or Meliponini ) honey, I bought a $35 jar (just under 8oz) of the UMF 15 at a rare discount from a certified brand (Steens). I could stick a toothpick into the jar for a tiny dab and apply that amount of honey to my lip at the starting itch of a cold sore. No cold sore would develop. I've never bought anything else again other than Manuka or Meliponini and I have not had a cold sore develop for around 7 years now. Even at UMF 10 works and the smallest jar lasts for a long time. I also put the honey on any burns I get from cooking. I rinse with it if I feel a toothache coming on. It just works. There are articles in medical journals that detail the effectiveness of Manuka.