Health Manuka Honey - exaggerated hype or healing?

All the world wants Manuka honey-healing or just fake?

Sometimes it is licked with pleasure by the spoon, sometimes as a balm it cares for the lips, "oils" the voice, helps to remove blemishes or strengthens the muscles - the New Zealand wonder honey is equally popular with movie stars, musicians and athletes alike. Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Kylie Minogue and Ed Sheeran are known to love Manuka Honey. Athletes like tennis ace Novak Djokovic swear by it and strengthen with it their immune system and also with Bundesliga players Manuka honey arrived. But not only celebrities and athletes rely on the bee product - even doctors and naturopaths recommend their patients Manuka honey meanwhile, because he has proven in various scientific studies as an effective bacteria killer.

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• All the world wants Manuka honey-healing or just fake?
• Quality: What should a customer be able to rely on when shopping??
• Reliable MGO certification is not a matter of course
• Original origin guaranteed
• Purity and quality
• German honey quality from New Zealand?
• Responsibility is attitude - and vice versa
• Safe sources of purchase
• Manuka honey - just a hype or really valuable?
• Further studies:

No wonder that the valuable, sweet "fabric" from New Zealand has caused a veritable hype not only with us, but worldwide. Especially in weak years, the increasing demand can exceed the limited supply and drive the prices for the coveted natural product further into dizzying heights. Where there is a lot of money in the game, label fraud is not far ...

Manuka honey helps with numerous diseases and can also be used against cold sores. (Image: srekap / fotolia.com)

Quality: What should a customer be able to rely on when shopping??

As with all natural products Manuka honeys vary in color, taste, texture and purity of the costume. These factors are z. Depending on location, weather or the nature of the plant. The decisive criteria for the quality and / or quality of a Manuka honey are a matter of trust.

The manuka honeys of the premium bottler Manuka Health undergo regular, strict controls to guarantee the consistently highest product quality. Together with scientific expertise in the research of the natural ingredient methylglyoxal, they have made the MGO pioneer in Germany the best known and most popular brand:

Reliable MGO certification is not a matter of course

The naturally-occurring ingredient methylglyoxal (MGO) in Manuka honeys sets it apart from normal honeys and determines its value - Manuka is not the same as Manuka. Manuka Health was the first bottler to implement the identification of the drug by the research team led by Prof. Henle at the TU Dresden and tested each batch of its honeys according to the method he developed and MGO. certified - the originals. For New Zealand's honey producers, this is a groundbreaking development that, after only a few years, has made measuring the MGO concentration one of Manuka Honigen's acknowledged, most important quality criteria. The many years of scientific collaboration between Manuka Health and the TU Dresden have resulted in a wealth of knowledge and experience. But there is still something new to discover. As far as the special characteristics of the New Zealand "miracle honey" are concerned, the MGO pioneer continues to be researched.

Original origin guaranteed

Real manuka honey comes exclusively from New Zealand. Since February 2018, a regulation of the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture (MPI), which is to ensure the originality or New Zealand origin of Manuka honey. Above all, it is important for the export of the valuable natural product. Because no honey that does not pass the test developed by experts from five "Manuka markers" may leave New Zealand.

Purity and quality

Natural products such as honey vary from crop to harvest. They come from many bee colonies, different beekeeping companies and locations. That's why checking the purity and quality of premium honeys plays a big role. Tests and controls of each batch on z. Contamination, toxin contamination, adulteration or heat damage ensure reliable quality.

German honey quality from New Zealand?

In New Zealand, the honey ordinance in Germany / Europe has little meaning. For the supplier and exporter Manuka Health, it is a matter of course to check its honeys for conformity with the German honey ordinance. It includes a variety of honey-specific testing criteria and is considered the most stringent quality testing worldwide. Only such MGO & # x2122; Manuka honeys, which correspond to her, enter the sea route to Germany to the importer New Zealand house.
By the way: The product can be traced back to the beekeeper via the Manuka Health Batch Code or the lot number on the label.

Responsibility is attitude - and vice versa

In New Zealand, the wild manuka shrubs grow in pristine, often inaccessible areas. Local beekeepers know about the best places that are close to Manuka. They grow their beehives there from the heyday of November to February, often on leased land. But even here, in seclusion, bees can become "tight" to feed the bees when too many bees have to share the harvest.

Manuka honey should be consumed untreated. Image: kuntabunt

Therefore, at the beginning of the harvest season, the care of Manuka Health chief beekeeper Dave applies to the optimal distribution of the hives. For him, sustainability and bee health precede short-term honey yield, because both benefit bee and man. The experienced beekeeper attaches importance to the most gentle beekeeping, where the nutrition and health of the beehive and special wintering programs are in the foreground. Manuka Health dispenses with the use of antibiotics.

Safe sources of purchase

Also, the purchase of manuka honey is a question of quality. The New Zealand House, the Manuka expert and general importer of Manuka Health products, has made a name for itself in its expertise and advisory skills. Here, the customer is advised by phone and online competent. The health food shop e.g. is the specialist for personal consultation on site.

Manuka honey - just a hype or really valuable?

Provocatively speaking, it is "a pity" that Manuka Honig has become known to celebrities and thus throughout the world. The growing demand not only raises the value and prices of New Zealand's natural product, but also brings imitators or counterfeiters to the fore. All the more important is the trust in the reliable quality of a brand.

Particularly against the background of drastically increasing resistance to antibiotics (MRSA), Manuka Honig, as a naturally effective antibiotic, is - and not without reason - increasingly becoming the focus of science and research. The "diagnosis" is: Manuka Honey is more than honey and remains valuable to many people.

To read on, here is a list of studies on the antibacterial efficacy of Manuka honey.

Aled E.L. Roberts, Sarah E. Maddocks, Rose A. Cooper: Manuka honey is bactericidal against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and results in differential expression of oprF and algD (Microbiology 158: 3005-3013, 01 December 2012)

Lin SM, Molan PC, Cursons RT .: The controlled in vitro susceptibility of gastrointestinal pathogens to the antibacterial effect of manuka honey (Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Apr; 30 (4): 569-74).
Cokcetin NN, Pappalardo M, Campbell LT, Brooks P, Carter DA, Blair SE, Harry EJ: The Antibacterial Activity of Australian Leptospermum Honey Correlates with Methylglyoxal Levels (PLoS One. 2016 Dec 28; 11 (12): e0167780)

Rabie E, Serem JC, Oberholzer HM, Gaspar AR, Best MJ: How methylglyoxal kills bacteria: An ultrastructural study (Ultrastruct Pathol. 2016; 40 (2): 107-11)

Further studies:

dental health
Fifth German Oral Health Study: Institute of German Dentists on behalf of the Federal Dental Association and Dentistry Association, Berlin, Cologne 2016
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Prathibha Anand Nayak, R. Mythili R .: Effect of Manuka honey, chlorhexidine gluconate and xylitol on the clinical levels of dental plaque (Contemporary Clinical Dentistry., 2010 Oct; 1 (4): 214-7.).

Helen K. English, Peter C. Molan: The effects of manuka honey on plaque and gingivitis: a pilot study (Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology, 2004 Apr; 6 (2): 63-7)
C. Badet: The in vitro effect of manuka honeys on growth and adherence of oral bacteria (Anaerobic. 2011 Feb; 17 (1): 19-22)
Gesine Schäfer: Antibacterial effect of honey on Porphyromonas gingivalis, University of Jena 2011

Gastrointestinal tract
Eric N Hammond, Eric S Donkor: Antibacterial effect of Manuka honey on Clostridium difficile (BMC Res Notes., 2013; 6: 188)
Eric N Hammond, Eric S Donkor, Charles A Brown: Biofilm formation of Clostridium difficile and susceptibility to Manuka Honey (BMC Complement Aging Med. 2014; 14: 329)

wound care
Journal of Wound Care, 2/2016, Title: In vitro activity of engineered honey, medical grade honeys, and antimicrobial wound dressings against biofilm-producing clinical bacterial isolates.

Molcules, 10/2015, Title: Comparing the Antibacterial and Functional Properties of Cameroonian and Manuka Honeys for Potential Wound Healing-Have We Come Full Cycle in Dealing with Antibiotic Resistance?

Jing Lu, Dee A. Carter, Lynne Turnbull, Douglas Rosendale, Duncan Hedderley, Jonathan Stephens, Swapna Gannabathula, Gregor Steinhorn, Ralf C. Schlothauer, Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Elizabeth J. Harry: The Effect of New Zealand Kanuka, Manuka and Clover Honeys on Bacterial Growth Dynamics and Cellular Morphology Varies According to the Species (PLoS One. 2013; 8 (2): e55898)

Michelle E.M. Campeau, Robin Patel: Antibiofilm Activity of Manuka Honey in Combination with Antibiotics (Int J Bacteriol. 2014; 2014: 795281)