NZ Health Naturally Creamy Clover Honey
What is Creamy Clover Honey?
Creamy Clover Honey is 100% New Zealand sourced from white clover (Trifolium repens), and red clover (Trifolium pratense), the attractive wildflowers growing in the unpolluted, clean and remote countryside of New Zealand. Creamy Clover Honey is harvested during the summer months between December and January and is made with no added colours, additives, flavours or preservatives.
What are the Key Features of Creamy Clover Honey?
Creamy Clover Honey is a natural alternative to sugar and sweeteners and contains approximately 80% sugars, mainly the simple sugars (monosaccharides) fructose and glucose. It is light in colour, with a smooth delicate flavour. Creamy Clover Honey is stirred in vats over a 3-4 day period making the sugar crystals smooth and creamy. This creaming process ensures that as much of the flavour as possible is retained.
Creamy Clover 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 Creamy Clover 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 Creamy Clover Honey.
Serving suggestions of Creamy Clover Honey:
Creamy Clover Honey can be enjoyed simply as an eating experience by itself, spread generously onto bread or toast. Creamy Clover Honey can also be used as a cooking agent and is delicious when added to a marinade or used as an ingredient in cooking.
Creamy Clover 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 Creamy Clover 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 Size
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.