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Fernanda P.March 2022
★★★★★
The Manuka Honey is incredible! Such a smooth taste. It has really helped me with my gut issues.
★★★★★ 5.0 on GoogleUMF™ licence 3002
Raw Mānuka Honey
UMF™ 15+ · MGO 515+UMF™ 20+ · MGO 850+ · New Zealand
Starter Kit $109$149 $144.00$184.00 $1.51$2.07/day
Daily throat, gut + immune support†Maximum-strength immune + gut support†
Gut + digestion†
Immune support†
Soothes your throat
Prebiotics + antioxidants
Clean, steady energy
Creamy caramel taste
Max-strength immune†
Strongest gut support†
65% more MGO than 15+
Healthy inflammation response†
Soothes a sore throat
Creamy caramel taste
- UMF™ licence 3002Check your jar's results
- Product of New ZealandRaw, never pasteurized
- 30-day refundOpened jars too
What's in the jar
Raw New Zealand mānuka honey. That's the whole ingredient list. UMF™ 15+, certified to a minimum of 515 mg/kg MGO.UMF™ 20+, certified to a minimum of 850 mg/kg MGO. 250g (8.8 oz) glass jar with its own batch number.
How to take it
One level teaspoon (about 7g) a day, around 36 servings per jar. Take it straight, in warm (not boiling) tea or over breakfast. The nutrition panel uses the standard one-tablespoon serving. Store with the lid closed in a cool, dry place. Not suitable for children under 12 months.
Shipping and returns
Shipping options and costs are shown at checkout. If it isn't for you, email us within 30 days of your order for a full refund. You keep the jar. Full terms.
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
- UMF™ 15+ · MGO 515+UMF™ 20+ · MGO 850+
- Raw, never pasteurized
- One ingredient
- Product of New Zealand
- 30-day refund, keep the jar
Feel like yourself again
Feeling better isn't in the pharmacy aisle.It's in one spoonful a day.
Waking up with energy that lasts past lunch. A stomach that feels calm instead of bloated. A throat that feels soothed, not scratchy. Feeling strong and steady all winter, not just hoping to get through it.
If you've been chasing that with pills, powders and a probiotic subscription, you know how it goes: half of it is still in the cupboard, because nobody sticks with something they have to force down.
Mānuka works the other way round. One spoonful every morning of something you actually look forward to, supporting your gut, your immune system and your energy at once.†
Immune
Always run down
A spoonful every morning to support your immune system,† before the day gets its hands on you.
Gut
Bloated by lunchtime
Natural prebiotics that feed the good bacteria in your gut,† in food, not another capsule.
Throat
Scratchy every season
Thick, raw honey that coats and soothes a dry, scratchy throat the moment you take it.
Energy
Crashing by 3pm
Natural carbohydrates for clean, steady energy, instead of another coffee and a sugar crash.
What one spoonful does
Not a sweetener.A daily superfood, straight from the hive.
Our most potent jar.For when you need it to work harder.
Raw mānuka carries compounds no other honey has in any real amount. Here's what they do for you, every morning you take it.
UMF™ 20+ is certified to at least 850 mg/kg of MGO, 65% more than our 15+ at the minimum, in every single teaspoon. Same raw honey, far more of the compound that makes it work.
Supports digestion and gut health†Our strongest support for your gut†
Raw mānuka carries naturally occurring prebiotic oligosaccharides, the fibre your good gut bacteria feed on. A healthier gut is where a calmer stomach, easier digestion and better absorption of everything else you eat all start.
Supports your immune system†Maximum-strength immune support†
MGO is the naturally antibacterial compound that sets mānuka apart.1 Taken every morning, it's the simplest way to keep your body's defenses supported all year, not just when you're already feeling it.
MGO is the naturally antibacterial compound that sets mānuka apart,1 and UMF™ 20+ carries the most of it we bottle. For winter, for travel, for the stretches when you're run down and need your defenses at full strength.
Soothes a scratchy throatSoothes a sore, scratchy throat
It's thick, raw and slow, so it coats a dry, irritated throat on contact. Straight off the spoon, or stirred into warm water with lemon.
Rich in natural antioxidants†Helps balance inflammation†
Mānuka is packed with plant polyphenols that help protect your cells from everyday oxidative stress, and supports a healthy inflammatory response.†
Clean, steady energy
Natural carbohydrates straight from the hive. A spoonful in place of the 3pm coffee and the vending machine, without anything artificial.
A habit you'll actually keep
Creamy, rich and caramel-sweet.Creamy, rich and caramel-sweet. The best supplement is the one you take every day, and this is the one you'll reach for.
The part capsules can't give you
Dense, creamy, slow off the spoon.A habit you'll look forward to.
Raw mānuka sets thick and pale on its own. We never pasteurize it to make it pour clear, because that's what flattens the flavour. Rich, caramel-sweet, with the faintly bitter, earthy finish real mānuka is known for. Nobody forgets to eat the good honey.
The secret is MGO
Every honey is sweet.Only mānuka carries MGO.
Bees that feed on the mānuka bush, native to New Zealand, make a honey rich in methylglyoxal, or MGO. It's the naturally antibacterial compound behind everything mānuka is known for,1 and the reason scientists have studied mānuka for more than 30 years while ignoring clover honey.2 Regular honey carries almost none.3
The number on the jar is the amount of MGO inside. Higher number, more MGO in every spoonful. That's why a supermarket "mānuka" with no number, or a low one, isn't the same thing.
515+850+
mg of MGO per kg, certified minimum
Regular honey<25
UMF™ 10+261
UMF™ 15+515
UMF™ 20+850
Regular honey: levels reported by Mavric et al., 2008.1 UMF™ 10+: the grade floor published by the UMF Honey Association. 15+ and 20+: the certified minimum on our jars.
What's inside
One ingredient.A lot going on inside it.
Always inside
MGO 515+850+Methylglyoxal, mānuka's naturally antibacterial compound, certified
LeptosperinThe marker UMF™ testing uses to confirm genuine mānuka
Natural prebioticsOligosaccharides that feed the good bacteria in your gut†
Plant antioxidantsNaturally occurring polyphenols from the mānuka flower
Natural enzymesKept intact because it's never pasteurized
Plus naturally occurring trace nutrients:
Amino acidsB vitaminsCalciumCopperIronMagnesiumManganesePhosphorusPotassiumZinc
Never inside
- Added sugar or syrups
- Additives or fillers
- Pasteurization or heat
- Blends from other countries
- GMOs
- Plastic jars
Two grades
Start with 15+.Step up to 20+ when you need more.
UMF™ 15+ · The everyday grade
515+mg/kg MGO
From $1.51 a day
Daily digestive and immune support.† The one to take every morning, and the one to start with if it's your first jar.
UMF™ 20+ · Our strongest
850+mg/kg MGO
From $2.07 a day
65% more MGO than our 15+ at the minimum. For when you want the strongest support we bottle:† winter, travel, a run-down stretch, the weeks that take everything you've got.
How to take it
One teaspoon a day.And a jar full of other uses.
Dose
One level teaspoon (about 7g) a day. Take a second on the days you need more.
How
Straight off the spoon, or stirred into warm (not boiling) water, tea, yogurt or oats.
When
First thing in the morning, before breakfast, every day. Consistency is what counts.
Taste
Rich and creamy, with deep caramel and a faintly bitter, earthy finish.
About 36 level-teaspoon servings per 250g jar. The nutrition panel uses the standard one-tablespoon serving. Not suitable for children under 12 months, as with all honey.
Compare before you buy
Mānuka is one of the most faked foods there is.Here's how you know ours isn't.
When the EU tested imported honey in 2021-22, 147 of 320 samples were suspected of being cut with sugar syrup.4 Mānuka, at many times the price, is the biggest target of all. So every one of our jars carries our UMF™ licence number (3002) and its own batch number, which you can look up for free at umf.org.nz.
Center of ParadiseOther mānuka
Regular honey
Certified MGO printed on the jar
MGO 515+850+
Not always
UMF™ licensed, batch you can look up
Licence 3002
Not always
Raw, never pasteurized
Not always
Usually heat-treated
100% New Zealand mānuka
Sometimes blended
Often several countries
One ingredient, nothing added
Not always
Glass jar
Often plastic
Usually plastic
30-day refund, keep the jar
Rarely stated
Where it comes from
Wild mānuka country, New Zealand.It flowers for a few weeks a year.
A short bloom.
Mānuka flowers for only a few weeks each summer, so every batch starts with good timing and a lot of patience.
Raw from the hive.
Extracted and jarred without pasteurizing, so the honey reaches you the way the bees made it.
Certified before it's sold.
Every batch is independently tested and graded under the UMF™ system before a single jar goes out.
The Starter Kit
Two jars, three gifts.Everything to make it a habit.
- Two full 250g jars of UMF™ 15+UMF™ 20+, so you don't run out just as the habit takes hold.
- A 30g travel jar for your bag, your desk or the carry-on.
- A wooden dipper that lives in the jar.
- The Mānuka Protocol, our 38-page guide: how much to take, when, and 25 ways to use it.
72 servings for $1.51$2.07 a day. Cheaper per jar than buying one at a time, and the three gifts are free with your first kit.
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Bertha V.January 2024
★★★★★
Extremely happy with the quality and concentration… Especially the Manuka Honey… I take [it] regularly and have noticed a huge improvement in my immune system.
J
Jonathan A.January 2024
★★★★★
Excellent products made with nothing but the highest quality ingredients. Our family enjoys the Raw Manuka Honey.
J
Julie H.September 2022
★★★★★
Great product. Arrived quickly and was packaged carefully!
Our founder
The story behindCenter of Paradise.
After losing both of his parents to cancer, founder Gabriel Amarazeanu spent more than a decade studying natural wellness, searching for the purest and most powerful foods nature has to offer.
Center of Paradise is the result: meticulously sourced natural products with nothing artificial. Ever.
Marquis Who's WhoHonored Listee, 202410+Years of researchin natural wellness
3002UMF™ licenceNew Zealand
The guarantee
Open it. Taste it.If it's not for you, keep the jar.
Email us within 30 days of your order and we'll refund you in full. Opened, half-finished, it doesn't matter. You don't send anything back.
Questions
Good questions.Straight answers.
What makes mānuka different from regular honey?
MGO. It's the compound behind mānuka's antibacterial activity, and ordinary honey carries almost none. Our UMF™ 15+ is certified to at least 515 mg/kg of MGO and our UMF™ 20+ to at least 850 mg/kg. Raw mānuka also keeps its natural enzymes and prebiotic oligosaccharides, because it's never pasteurized.
What are the benefits of mānuka honey?
Mānuka supports digestion and gut health, your immune system and a healthy inflammatory response,† soothes a scratchy throat, and gives you clean energy from natural carbohydrates. Those benefits come from its MGO, natural prebiotics and antioxidants.
How much sugar is in it?
Per the label, one tablespoon (21g) has 70 calories and 13.7g of natural sugars.
UMF™ 15+ or UMF™ 20+?
Start with 15+ if it's your first jar or you want an everyday spoonful. Choose 20+ if you want the most MGO we bottle: 850 mg/kg at the minimum, against 515 for our 15+. Same raw honey, same jar, same licence.
How much should I take, and when?
One level teaspoon (about 7g) a day, first thing in the morning. That's around 36 servings per 250g jar, from $1.51 a day with the UMF™ 15+ Starter Kit. On days you need more, take a second. The nutrition panel uses the standard one-tablespoon serving, which is why it lists 12.
What if it isn't for me?
Email us within 30 days of your order for a full refund. You don't need to send the jar back, even if it's open.
Why does it cost more than regular honey?
Mānuka comes from one plant that flowers for a few weeks a year, and every batch of ours is independently tested and certified before it's sold. Regular honey is usually blended, heat-treated and never graded for MGO.
How do I know it's real?
Every jar carries our UMF™ licence number (3002) and a batch number. Enter both at umf.org.nz to see the certification for your batch.
Why is my honey cloudy or firm?
Raw honey naturally sets and turns creamy. It's a sign it hasn't been heated, not a fault. For a softer texture, stand the jar in warm (not hot) water for a few minutes.
Is it safe for children?
Not for babies under 12 months, as with all honey. For older children, a smaller spoonful is plenty.
Is this a subscription?
No. The single jar and the Starter Kit are both one-time purchases.
One teaspoon a day.Start tomorrow morning.
Our strongest spoonful.Start tomorrow morning.
Full refund within 30 days. Keep the jar.
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
1 Mavric et al., Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, 2008. 2 Molan, Bee World, 1992. 3 Adams et al., Carbohydrate Research, 2009. 4 European Commission, "From the Hives" coordinated action on honey imports, 2023.