Buy any 2 bottles of Rare New Zealand Manuka Honey - UMF 20+ Manuka Honey, UMF 22+ Manuka Honey or UMF 25+ Manuka Honey, and receive 1 Bottle of rare New Zealand UMF 5+ Manuka Honey for FREE! Plus Free Shipping!! Hurry, cold and flu season is here!
They're trying to save you from a heart attack…
Anti ageing
Can you really claim this?
It doesn't stop or slow ageing it's just very opposed to it. It's why bees love such short lives.
Anti ageing… rare!? What… This isn't so much of a deal as snake oil.
Rare is the brand name.
Oh this is rare in my house because I’m not buying it
UMF = Untested Marketing Fantasy.
Manuka Honey isn’t medicine; it’s branding. Methylglyoxal (MGO) - the supposedly “active” antimicrobial compound - is present in all honey. All of it. It’s just that some marketing board decided to charge $190 a jar when the levels get high enough to slap a “25+” on the label and whisper therapeutic like it means something.
There are no double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials showing oral ingestion of Manuka Honey doing anything meaningfully different to standard honey. The studies people reference? Petri dishes. Not people. Not even rats. Just pathogens dying in a jar of sugar. That’s what sugar does.
And yes, it’s mildly useful as a topical antibacterial dressing in medically sterilised form, but unless you’re rubbing it into an open wound, the only thing it’s healing is your buyer’s remorse.
UMF is an industry-backed “certification." It’s not regulated. It’s not clinical. It’s a number they assign to make $760/kg bee juice look like Swiss pharmaceuticals.
There is no anti-ageing benefit. No immune support beyond placebo. No physiological edge over the $7 squeezy bottle at Coles. The only “rare” thing here is consumer critical thinking.
I agree with everything you said up to the 2nd last sentence.
There is a big difference in taste between $7 squeeze honey and raw / fresh honey.
Antidotally, eating locally sourced honey a few times a week has made a difference to how bad my hay-fever is. Though I the main reason I buy local honey is the much better taste.
Using 'Rare' as a business name is quite misleading…
Maybe it is 'rare' that their products actually work perhaps ???
This is not anti-aging.
Zero health benefits besides the usual ones associated with honey.
Also: "spend $140 on honey, and we'll give a free extra jar". A horrible deal, which doesn't belong on Ozbargain.
Also also: "Hurry, cold and flu season is here!". This is particularly galling. It smacks of the scam tactic where artificial urgency is created, in an attempt to stop the mark from considering the info available properly.
Rep has jumped ship with the rats…
Yep. Post added 3:42 hours ago. Rep last online 3:41 hours ago.
Another spam marketing post with fake claims and no interest to engage with the community.
And why advertise when you can’t fulfil current orders
“Orders will no longer be taken till after the 27th of May. Any orders that do come through from now on (11th of May) will be shipped after the 27th May.”
The old post and run. Obviously not confident in the product's abilities.
Please list the prices. Thank you