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to clover, Scottish Heather or Spanish
orange blossom.
To get the honey, the honeycomb is
removed from the hive and the honey is
extracted from that, often using a honey
extractor, a simple centrifuge that spins
the honey out leaving the wax that makes
up the honeycomb behind. The honey is
then filtered. Darker coloured honey tends
to have a stronger flavour. Cut comb is
honey still in the honeybees' wax comb.
Antibacterial activities
Manuka honey currently has a high cachet.
Coming from New Zealand or Australia,
it's made by bees feeding on the Manuka
or tea-tree. Just as tea-tree oils are
used to treat pimples, tea-tree (manuka)
honey also has anti-bacterial properties.
So much so, it received approval to be
used in wound management from the US
Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) in
2007. It has a gel-like state when sat in
a jar at room temperature, but will liquify
when stirred, which is already a bit of a
mysterious quality.
DIABEE'S HONEY DOSES
It is sold with a rating of, for example,
12+ or 20+. This rating was created by
an organization called TradeNZ and the
Honey Research Unit, which in 1996
set about to establish a standard for
the classification of antibacterial honey
activity. This led to the creation of the
UMF industry standard (Unique Manuka
Factor). The Honey Research Unit
developed a procedure for rating honeys
which has now been in place for some
time. After being tested, the honeys
are given the rating based their tested
antibacterial activity. A UMF rating of
10 (10+) is the minimum activity to gain
the UMF. Honey achieving this rating is
commonly referred to as Active Manuka
Honey, although manuka honey is often
marketed as being 'active' even though
it is not. Only honey that carries the UMF
registered trademark should be chosen
if the intended use is for therapeutic
purposes, and the majority of recent
medical trial have predominantly used
manuka honey with a UMF strength of 10
or more.
Glucose tablets can be tasteless and crumble in transit; glucose solutions are heavy,
and sweets usually contain animal gelatin, fats and artificial ingredients. DiaBee solves
all these niggles as they are tasty, light-weight, highly portable, robust and have a
long shelf life. DiaBee provides an array of vitamins, minerals, bioflavonoids and antioxidants. Each DiaBee 'dose' contains 5g of carbohydrate (all sugars). This dosage
gives you a high degree of control. Use to pre-empt a hypo during rigorous exercise
or take to fine-tune blood sugars at the first indication of a hypo; two or three doses
work effectively if more serious blood sugar drops are experienced. Keep in pockets,
bags, bedside tables, desk drawers, gymbags or kitbags.
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