BeeNZ Wildflower Honey
What is Wildflower Honey?
Wildflower Honey is 100% New Zealand sourced from a wide variety of native bush and pastural flowers that grow in New Zealand’s untouched forests and green pastures. These plants may include Manuka, Kanuka, Kamahi, Rewarewa, Tawari, Clover and Honeydew. Wildflower Honey is rich and floral in flavour and is harvested during the summer months between December and January. BeeNZ honey is sourced from their own beehives and other trusted beekeepers and is made with no added colours, additives, flavours or preservatives.
What are the Key Features of Wildflower Honey?
Wildflower Honey is a natural alternative to sugar and sweeteners and contains approximately 80% sugars, mainly the simple sugars (monosaccharides) fructose and glucose. It is a blend that produces a medium amber colour honey with a stunning rich and floral flavour. Wildflower Honey is the product of mixture of nectar collected by the bees from a variety of different flowers. Once the honey is harvested it is packed as liquid straight into the pots.
Wildflower Honey is guaranteed to:
- Be 100% New Zealand made
- Be quality controlled and certified by New Zealand regulatory authorities
- Contain no added colours, additives, flavours or preservatives
What are the Key Benefits of Wildflower 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 Wildflower Honey.
Serving suggestions of Wildflower Honey:
Wildflower Honey can be enjoyed simply as an eating experience by itself, spread generously onto bread or toast. Wildflower Honey can also be used as a cooking agent and is delicious when added to a marinade or used as an ingredient in cooking.
Wildflower 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 Wildflower 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.