{"id":390934,"date":"2026-04-21T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:01:08","slug":"nz-manuka-south-honey-in-harrods-of-london-selling-for-2000-a-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390934\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Manuka South honey in Harrod\u2019s of London selling for \u00a32000 a jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Harrods\u2019 head pharmacist Sarina Mughal told the Daily Mail it\u2019s one of the store\u2019s best-selling honeys. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had weeks where we\u2019ve sold between six and 10 jars, and these are all repeat customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The same honey, including box and gold trimming, is for sale on the Manuka South Website for NZ$2499. Photo \/ Manuka South\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The same honey, including box and gold trimming, is for sale on the Manuka South Website for NZ$2499. Photo \/ Manuka South<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Honey sommelier Helen Rogers told the Daily Mail the Manuka South jar contained \u201cextreme\u201d levels of methylglyoxal, a key antibacterial compound. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Rogers, who is also secretary of the Honey Guild of the United Kingdom, said she was not convinced m\u0101nuka variants were greatly superior to her local honey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt definitely is superior on wounds &#8230; Most people probably wouldn\u2019t enjoy it. It\u2019s got quite a medicinal flavour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Luxury food YouTuber Carmie Sellitto bought a jar and drizzled the honey on a \u00a31.45 Greggs sausage roll. Photo \/ Carmie Sellitto\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Luxury food YouTuber Carmie Sellitto bought a jar and drizzled the honey on a \u00a31.45 Greggs sausage roll. Photo \/ Carmie Sellitto<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The extreme price of the honey has attracted influencers, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Luxury food YouTuber Carmie Sellitto bought a jar and drizzled the honey on a \u00a31.45 ($3.30) Greggs sausage roll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">He said the combination \u201csurprisingly, really worked\u201d, adding, \u201ceither that or I was just convincing myself because I spent so much money on it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">He eventually rated it 10 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harrods\u2019 head pharmacist Sarina Mughal told the Daily Mail it\u2019s one of the store\u2019s best-selling honeys. \u201cWe\u2019ve had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2327,11689,202212,138,26034,2082,202211,33213,78,200820,1619,6431,202210,45393,3025,111,139,69,1118,19276,15407,4913,13235,28203,24035,1240,653,97,8238,6123,24750],"class_list":{"0":"post-390934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-2327","9":"tag-11689","10":"tag-202212","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-department","13":"tag-for","14":"tag-harrods","15":"tag-honey","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-jar","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-londons","20":"tag-manuka","21":"tag-mnuka","22":"tag-most","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-offering","28":"tag-pick","29":"tag-pop","30":"tag-prestigious","31":"tag-producer","32":"tag-selling","33":"tag-south","34":"tag-stores","35":"tag-supermarket","36":"tag-under","37":"tag-while","38":"tag-zealanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}