BeeNZ Rewarewa Honey
What is Rewarewa Honey?
Rewarewa Honey is 100% New Zealand sourced from the New Zealand Honeysuckle tree (Knightia excelsa) that grows throughout New Zealand’s North Island and in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island. Rewarewa only flowers for a few months each year between October and December, making this a truly unique honey.
What are the Key Features of Rewarewa Honey?
Rewarewa Honey is a natural alternative to sugar and sweeteners and contains approximately 80% sugars, mainly the simple sugars (monosaccharides) fructose and glucose. The unique cylinder shaped flowers of the Honeysuckle tree produce a dark rich honey with a classic caramel like flavour.
Rewarewa Honey is guaranteed to:
- Be 100% New Zealand made
- Be quality controlled and certified by New Zealand regulatory authorities
- Contain natural minerals and enzymes
- Contain no added colours, additives, flavours or preservatives
What are the Key Benefits of Rewarewa Honey?
Honey has traditionally been used for thousands of years by ancient civilizations for its nutritional and medicinal properties and is particularly known as a natural antiseptic. General medicinal properties attributed to all types of honey include antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and wound healing. These properties can be attributed to the many nutritional and bioactive compounds naturally found in honey, including sugars, proteins, amino acids, enzymes, organic acids, vitamins, minerals, phenolic compounds and volatile compounds, many of which are specific for honey derived from certain flowers. The presence of specific enzymes in honey helps determine the freshness and origin of the honey1 such as Rewarewa Honey.
Serving suggestions of Rewarewa Honey:
Rewarewa Honey can be enjoyed simply as an eating experience by itself, spread generously onto bread or toast. Rewarewa Honey can also be used as a cooking agent and is delicious when added to a marinade or used as an ingredient in cooking.
Rewarewa Honey can also be used as a soothing drink by mixing with warm water or adding to herbal or Asian teas.
Caution:
Do not give Rewarewa Honey to a baby under one year of age. This is because there is a small risk with any honey that it may contain spores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can germinate in the immature intestine of a young child and cause infant botulism, a bacterial infection of the intestines. Risk of botulism from honey is only a problem for the immature intestine. Once mature, the intestines can prevent Clostridium spreading and causing botulism.
Product Sizes:
250g & 500g
References
- da Silva PM, Gauche C, Gonzaga LV, Costa AC, Fett R. Honey: Chemical composition, stability and authenticity. Food Chem 2016 Apr 1;196:309-23.