Manuka vs Pine Honey: A Comparison

One of our undervalued products is pine honey, despite being nearly identical to New Zealand’s manuka honey, which is widely promoted as a marketing phenomenon and sold for hundreds of dollars per kilogram. Pine honey might seem ordinary to us, right? Many even find its resinous flavor “too heavy.” But in reality, it’s one of the rarest honeys in the world. This isn’t an exaggeration. At the 8th International Muğla Beekeeping and Pine Honey Congress, I discovered fascinating facts about this remarkable honey — facts that even I, someone who thought I knew it well, was unaware of. For instance, its phenolic content rivals, and may even surpass, that of the renowned manuka honey.