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Golden Hills Manuka Honey UMF16+ 250g Authentic and Natural Bioactive Manuka Honey from unpolluted New Zealand Bushland. GoldenHills is a high quality, authentic Manuka Honey derived from pollution-free New Zealand and harvested by a family-owned company. Being BRC accredited, each batch of honey has full traceability back to the hive from which it came from and is extracted using good manufacturing practice. GoldenHills Manuka Honey is UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) rated, which means that it is graded for its bioactivity from 10 – 25+ by a certified laboratory. This UMF rated Manuka Honey is special because it has unique anti-bacterial properties unlike most other types of honey. Manuka Honey has been used for a variety of uses; on the skin; for ulcers, wounds and scars and orally; for sore throats, coughs, respiratory and stomach infections, IBS, gastric reflux and to help maintain a healthy immune system. GoldenHills is a great tasting, set honey which can be added to hot and cold drinks and foods or taken straight off the spoon! Ratings: 5+ and UMF 10+ low activity, UMF 16+ Medium activity and UMF 20+ and UMF 30+ for high activity.
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Average rating:  | Daily Mail 8th July 2009, 8th Jul 2009 | Reviewer: Julie Goodwin | Honey may take the sting out of the NHS superbugsby BEEZY MARSH, Daily Mail
Honey has the power to defeat the hospital superbugs which claim up to 5,000 lives a year, scientists have discovered.
Renowned for thousands of years for its medicinal properties, it is able to kill off mutant bacteria, including MRSA which has defeated all but the strongest antibiotics.
The latest discovery by researchers at the University of Wales in Cardiff comes at a time of growing scientific interest in the substance's healing properties.
Honey contains natural antibacterial agents which experts have discovered can prevent the growth of a number of hospital-acquired wound infections, even at very low concentrations.
Outbreaks of the infections cost the Health Service £1billion a year in extra treatment.
They kill 5,000 British hospital patients a year and are a factor in a further 15,000 deaths.
Honey was revered by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians as a powerful medicinal agent and used to help heal burns and sores.
During World War I, German physicians mixed it with cod liver oil to use as a surgical dressing for battle wounds.
But widespread use of antibiotics to combat infections in the latter part of the last century left it back in the kitchen cupboard.
The latest findings followed laboratory experiments on bacteria gathered from infected wounds and hospital surfaces, including MRSA.
The team at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff found honey attacked the bugs even when it was diluted in another medium. Microbiologist Dr Rose Cooper explained: 'I have found that even at concentrations as low as 3 per cent, honey is able to inhibit the growth of the bacteria.
'It is probable that at higher concentrations the honey would destroy the MRSA. This is very encouraging news and a good start.'
Varieties of honey from Australia and New Zealand have proved most effective. Their high sugar content creates a waterless environment in which the bacteria cannot survive.
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