The Gut-Brain Connection

Honey

A honey jar on a laboratory bench beside a chromatography column showing separated bands of colour, a pipette and a certification seal

What a certified honey grade actually proves

A number on a jar is only worth what the testing behind it is worth. What MGO grading measures, what UMF adds, and the study that checked whether the labels...

What a certified honey grade actually proves

A number on a jar is only worth what the testing behind it is worth. What MGO grading measures, what UMF adds, and the study that checked whether the labels...

Five identical Leptospermum blossoms in a row, each above a tall vessel filled to a very different depth with amber

Why one Manuka honey is stronger than another

Two jars of Manuka can differ by a factor of ten, and the reason starts in the flower rather than the hive. Where the number comes from, why species and...

Why one Manuka honey is stronger than another

Two jars of Manuka can differ by a factor of ten, and the reason starts in the flower rather than the hive. Where the number comes from, why species and...

A honey dipper lifting a golden ribbon with fine chains and bacteria rising from it, beside a thin clear pour into a plain glass with nothing rising from it

Why honey and not syrup

Anything you take daily needs something to carry it. Honey and glucose syrup look interchangeable on an ingredients list and behave very differently in laboratory studies of gut bacteria.

Why honey and not syrup

Anything you take daily needs something to carry it. Honey and glucose syrup look interchangeable on an ingredients list and behave very differently in laboratory studies of gut bacteria.

Two identical Leptospermum blossoms drawn side by side, with a scatter of smaller blossoms of many different forms behind them

Is Australian Manuka real Manuka?

New Zealand tried twice to make Manuka a name only its own producers could use. It lost both times, in the country that raised the argument. Here is what the...

Is Australian Manuka real Manuka?

New Zealand tried twice to make Manuka a name only its own producers could use. It lost both times, in the country that raised the argument. Here is what the...

A jar of honey with a dipper beside a laboratory flask and a certification ribbon seal

What MGO 250+ actually means, and how to check it

MGO 250+ means 250 milligrams of methylglyoxal per kilogram of honey, verified by laboratory analysis. It sits at roughly UMF 10+, and it is one of the few numbers in...

What MGO 250+ actually means, and how to check it

MGO 250+ means 250 milligrams of methylglyoxal per kilogram of honey, verified by laboratory analysis. It sits at roughly UMF 10+, and it is one of the few numbers in...

Honeycomb hexagons on the left dissolving into microscopic gut bacteria on the right, with a single Leptospermum manuka flower in the centre

Honey, Manuka and the gut: what MGO means and w...

The MGO grade explained, why Australian Manuka is Manuka, and the honest state of the prebiotic evidence.

Honey, Manuka and the gut: what MGO means and w...

The MGO grade explained, why Australian Manuka is Manuka, and the honest state of the prebiotic evidence.