Making Mānuka honey (V0312)
The type of honey you have depends on where bees collect their nectar. Because Mānuka honey can be worth more, it can be useful to know how to track this.
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Bees can collect the nectar for their honey from a lot of different plants. How can you make sure the honey you have is Mānuka honey?
(Special thanks to the Department of Conservation for providing photos for this clip)
Transcript
Peter Molan (University of Waikato): The Mānuka tree, Leptospermum scoparium , is unique to Australia and New Zealand. It’s not available anywhere else in the world.
Claude Stratford (Comvita): Bees will fly over clover to Mānuka if it’s flowering. The two won’t be mixed. The bees know by the sugar content.
Young Mee Yoon (Comvita): We know it’s Mānuka honey because we have a well trained taste method. Also, beekeepers say this honey’s from a Mānuka area, and we do UMF test. Mānuka honey tends to have UMF activity.
Metadata
- Published:
- 01 June 2007
- Copyright:
- The University of Waikato
