$8.66/kg for 100% Australian Honey, Kosher approved. Seems to be a blended blossom honey.
Looks like all Harris Farms except for Bathurst (NSW).
Manufacturer's description:
Mudgee Honey is a blend of the finest local honey from the Mudgee area. This is the original 100% pure natural honey straight from our local bee keepers to your tables. It is one of our most popular traditional honeys. This pure honey at its best!
Probably don't want their own store to have to compete with Harris Farm in the region
Great price
100% Australian Honey
I don't understand honey but 100% Australian honey doesn't mean 100% honey.
Just got one - literally what it says on the packaging.
Generally supermarket honey tastes fine to me (I select for dark batches), so I don't know if its true that supermarket honey in Australia is diluted - but I did try some $60/kg raw, unfiltered, "undiluted" Aussie honey from a food exhibition and it was definitely not 7 times better.
The other thing is that its one thing to OEM a diluted honey for a supermarket brand, but this has an actual brand and farm, so the potential reputational damage if found to be adulterated would probably not be worth the risk, IMO.
Did you try it yet? Its rrp at farm was $16, so $13 is a decent price.
With some supermarket honey they feed bees sugar water (uncertain of rules of Australian honey) and still call it honey.
I may run down tommorrow and get 4 or so since honey doesn't go off
I did end up tasting it. Significantly woody, slight floral flavour - I would suggest getting one to try to see if you like it since it is quite different to generic honey.
It feels a little less viscous than my bucket of Harris Farm own-brand "Pure Australian Honey", but that might be from temperature differences.
I did try some $60/kg raw, unfiltered, "undiluted" Aussie honey
A friend gifted me a glass jar of Manuka honey UMF20+ from a New Zealand producer and to be honest I really disliked it because (in my opinion) it tasted like medicine also it was bitter.
Haha yeah I don't like pure Manuka honey either - way too strong - it's ok when blended with regular honey.
Well it is used for therapeutic medicine.
That's really interesting. Just shows the stuff we get here marketed as such isn't overly pure imo.
This product is called "Australian Pure Honey"but the description is "Pure Australian Honey". My point? The names "Pure Australian" and "Australian Pure" are used interchangeably here, or maybe it was a clerical error?
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/808997/woo…
Are these mass sold honey heat treated? As there's microbes or whatever anti bacterial qualities in natural honey straight from the hive but if they're treated than I'm assuming it loses those qualities.
No better quality than salmonella poisoning. Lol JK's I've never heard of anyone getting sick off honey, so hopefully it's not heat treated. Probably would make production easier (like when pouring it).
I don't mean you'll get sick but if it's cold/natural extracted and not heat treated then any benefits you'd get from honey wouldn't be destroyed, which is why I want honey in the first place 😁
I have read the terms & conditions on their site. So the delivery pass provides Australia wide delivery?
Can’t beat Kangaroo Island Living Honey
https://kangarooislandbeeco.com.au/collections/honey?gclid=C…
Bit of a different category at 4x the price
Heaps at Randwick store. Cheers OP
Went to Mudgee Honey Haven on the way to Dubbo.
Terrible, not what I expected.
I thought it was some small-time family run business selling 100% authentic, aussie honey, nope.
Turns out to be a massively commercialised place with tourists unloading from vans.
I started to question the authenticity of the honey, no different to what happened with our Capilano, being sold off to some Chinese Company which now sends us honey with the label (from multiple origins). There's been a report of the (Capilano) honey being laced with various undetectable syrusp.
So, no thank you.
@frostman
I started to question the authenticity of the honey, no different to what happened with our Capilano, being sold off to some Chinese Company which now sends us honey with the label (from multiple origins). There's been a report of the (Capilano) honey being laced with various undetectable syrups.
Are you sure about that? The bottle I have here says Australian honey, 100% pure Australian honey, Australian made and owned.
What are these various undetectable syrups? How can they be known to be syrups while being undetectable?
This sounds like something from a Facebook group.
Just blame china. You will be golden
Thank you for the link ippy. This news story cleared things up for me.
[Capilano]
and six out of eight of Capilano's Allowrie budget branded bottles had adulterated honey when NMR screening was used.
… … …
In the tested samples, she said it was the Chinese aspect of the honey that was adulterated not the Australian honey.
I don't buy the part-imported part-local honey, I have Capilano 100% Pure Australian Honey Squeeze 500g. If nothing has changed in the last five years, I should be fine. :)
TLDR don't buy Chinese food, buy local wherever possible. 'Straya!
@Loopholio: Avoid Chinese products unconditionally, if you want to pay more for lesser quality.
World Honey Awards medals won:
China tot 164: 55 gold, 67 silver, 42 bronze.
Australia 132: 38 gold, 60 silver, 34 bronze.
The US has less than the above (Google Bard ;)
The problem is NOT the imported cheap honey (as there are even better quality products than local), but the corrupt behaviour of locals that import cheaper alternatives & making profits on unjustified quality. That was 5y ago, & I hope the lies are more transparent, but being vigilant is good.
PS. The best EV cars are made in China, but you can stick with local ;)
It is easier to fool a person , than convince them they are being fooled .
Boy, didn't two years of pseudoscience prove that.
We went there couple years ago and think of it as one of the tourist destination rather than local shop. The mead liquor is quite nice if you like sweet liquor, but their bulk honey is a bit average. It's cheap though.
If you want pure Australian honey then best to buy from your local beekeeper
Does it still count if the bees are from overseas?
You’re not buying the bees, you’re buying the honey. Generally beekeepers don’t import bees
They do. Especially when the local bees are on strike, demanding higher honey-to-work ratios, leaving beekeepers with no choice but to open up their hives to international talent.
this honey in my opinion is absolute rubbish - as it has wayy to many additives
Evidence? Says it's 100 percent honey with no preservatives
im talking additives not preservatives.. - says the same thing as capilano Honey…
evidence is my opinion after trying honey from my beehive ive come to the consensuses that mudgee honey and capilano is dogshit!
![[NSW, QLD] Mudgee Honey Haven - Mudgee Honey 1.5kg $12.99 (Was $22.29) ($8.66/kg) In-store/C&C @ Harris Farm](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/14/793314.jpg?h=a3ae078f)
Weird it excludes Bathurst given location