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Thread #101893   Message #2060096
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-May-07 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Manuka Honey
Subject: RE: BS: Manuka Honey
In the Big Bend area of Texas, I bought a jar of local, wild honey, blackish-brown in color. Wonderful, but I never got back there, and I never found any advertized or for sale elsewhere.

Honey has a few more calories than sugar, but its real advantage is taste, and the variety of tastes provided by the different kinds.
Any value that honey has as a supplement is anecdotal, not supported by research.

The Manuka plant, on the other hand, parts or extracts, has been used by the Maori, and some uses have been verified, but these properties are lost to honey processed from pollen by bees.

Manuka, Leptospermum scoparium of N. Z., is a relative of the Australian Tea tree, but should not be confused with it.

Manuka has been grown in warmer parts of England and the United States as a white-flowering ornamental.