NZ Health Naturally Pohutukawa Honey | 500g

NZ Health Naturally Pohutukawa Honey 

What is Pohutakawa Honey?

Pohutukawa Honey is 100% New Zealand sourced from the native New Zealand Pohutukawa tree and collected every December, when the flowers are in full, bright red bloom, from the uninhabited island of Rangitoto in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. Pohutukawa Honey is made with no added colours, additives, flavours or preservatives and contains natural minerals and enzymes that contribute to its flavour and nutritional benefits.

What are the Key Features of Pohutukawa Honey?

Pohutukawa Honey is a natural alternative to sugar and sweeteners and contains approximately 80% sugars, mainly the simple sugars (monosaccharides) fructose and glucose.

Pohutukawa Honey is guaranteed to:

• Be 100% New Zealand made
• Quality controlled and certified by New Zealand regulatory authorities
• Contain natural minerals and enzymes that contribute to its flavour and nutritional benefits 
• Be low in fat
• Contain no added colours, additives, flavours or preservatives 

What are the Key Benefits of Pohutukawa 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. The wide range of flowers that grow in New Zealand provide the opportunity for collecting unique flavoured honey such as Pohutukawa Honey.

Serving suggestions of Pohutukawa Honey:

Pohutukawa Honey can be enjoyed simply as an eating experience by itself, spread generously onto bread or toast. Pohutukawa Honey can also be used as a cooking agent and is delicious when added to a marinade or used as an ingredient in cooking. Pohutukawa Honey can also be used as a soothing drink by mixing with warm water or adding to herbal or Asian teas.

Do not give Pohutukawa 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.

References

1. 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.