What does creamed mean?
Creaming is a process of natural granulation of the honey. In its liquid form, the natural sugars in honey want to return to their solid state. This usually leads to unsightly (yet completely harmless) natural sugar crystals forming in the honey. To avoid these crystals from forming, we cream our honey.
Creamed honey is honey that has been processed to control crystallization, which gives the honey its smooth, spreadable consistency and lighter color than liquid honey of the same floral type. And it means that when you open your jar of honey it is the same taste in wherever in the world you buy and enjoy our genuine Manuka honey.
Some Manuka Honey may be un-creamed and this will have a more grainy texture. Un-creamed Manuka honey will usually have larger sugar crystals and may be harder in consistency as a result.
Is Manuka Doctor’s honey filtered?
Often when Manuka is extracted from the beehive it may contain wax, propolis and other debris left in the hives by the bees.
At Manuka Doctor we lightly filter our honey before it is packed to ensure that you receive the consistency that you expect which is free from any foreign objects being in your jar.
What is Raw Manuka Honey?
Raw when it pertains to food, usually means that it has not been pasteurized or heat treated as part of the packing process as over-heating could damage some of the nutritional benefits of the food. However, whilst a lot of brands claim that their honey is “raw”, there is little to no regulations around what defines raw when it pertains to honey, which leads to multiple differing and misleading claims about what “raw” honey is. Furthermore, all honey needs to go through certain processes before it can be packed into a jar.
After being audited, Manuka Doctor can proudly say that our company is certified as Raw by the International Clean Food Certification Body - https://cleanfoodcertified.org/.
What Is Certified R.A.W.?
For products to be Certified R.A.W.:
- They must be "Real." The Real element was captured by the criteria that the product must be 100% safe and must have all non-GMO ingredients.
- They must be "Alive." The notion of Alive was denoted by the level of bioavailability of the combination of ingredients in the product, determined using a bioinformatics approach currently enabled through the CytoSolve®
- They must be "Whole." The element of Whole was captured by two criteria:
- The level of organic ingredients
- The ANDI nutrient score
