Start your day the Honestly way.
Our 350+ MGO Manuka Honey is your gentle, everyday companion for immunity, gut health, and natural energy. Sourced from the pristine landscapes of New Zealand and independently tested to verify a minimum of 350 mg/kg MGO, this is Manuka honey you can truly trust.
Tasting notes
Gentle and mellow, with a delightful initial sweetness that finishes with subtle notes of woodiness and soft caramel. Delicious straight off the spoon, stirred into warm (not boiling) drinks, or spread over toast.
Why Defensive?
Ingredients
100% Certified New Zealand Monofloral Manuka Honey with a minimum of 350 mg/kg MGO.
Not suitable for children under 12 months.
Current batch harvested in July 2025, Northland, New Zealand
On top of it’s health benefits, Mānuka honey just happens to taste amazing. Like the love child of honey and burnt caramel. Take one teaspoon a day, however you like, to benefit from nature’s own shield. Spread it on toast, melt it into tea, trickle it over yoghurt. Enjoy it, then enjoy the benefits.
100% Raw Monofloral Mānuka Honey, nothing else.
Average quantity per 100g: Energy 1197KJ / 286kcal, Fat 0.3g (of which saturates 0.2g), Carbohydrates 81g (of which sugars 79g), Protein 0g, Salt 0g.
MGO prevents bacterial growth to keep you safe and healthy.
Antibacterial effects reduce harmful microbes and discomfort.
Apply directly to ulcers, burns and wounds to speed up healing.
Antimicrobial to reduce irritation and relieve symptoms.
The Manuka flower blooms for just four to six weeks of the year, when our beekeepers brave the remote wilds of its native New Zealand to make sure their hives have their fill. We pay them fairly for their hard work and old knowledge.