If, like me, you spend your life battling a sweet tooth, you’ll know that the harder you fight the temptation the more likely you are to cave and overindulge. Instead, I find it’s better to allow yourself a hit of natural sweetness to satiate the cravings.
I’ve been spreading a couple of spoonfuls of Steens Manuka Honey onto sliced apple as a mid-afternoon alternative to the usual sugar-laden naughtiness of biscuits or chocolates, and I have to say it’s working a treat. Without the usual post-sugar crash my energy levels remain surprisingly high all afternoon (even in the cold dark winter).
It’s not just the strong yet sweet honey taste and satisfying grainy texture that I love about Steens, nor the fact that the New Zealand Manuka honey offers a whole load of health-bolstering properties that you simply don’t find in normal honey (thanks to its minimal processing it can help boost the immune system, aid digestion and speed up skin healing, but the fact that every single pot of honey can be tracked back to its origin via the quirky in-house software, ‘Hive Trackers’.
Choose your pot according to its bio-active property rating, Steens Manuka Honey is available in Raw 5+. Raw 10+ and Raw 15+, the greater the number, the more antibacterial the properties.