Great way to get kids eating honey

The new Honey Infusionz from Honey New Zealand are a great way to get kids eating honey.

These combinations of active 6+ manuka honey (very healthy) infused with seasonal fruits not only provide a range of tastes, but allow some more novels ways of taking honey. Raspberry honey on your ice cream anyone?

Available in a choice of 8 different flavours:
- Apricot
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Blackcurrant
- Blueberry
- Kiwifruit
- Spiced Apple
- Cinnamon

So pick your favourite fruit (or spice), and then have fun in how you take it. Spread it on your sandwiches, take it by the teaspoon, use in cooking, dribble over your ice cream, it's up to you. Delicious and healthy.

Fruit Honey Infusionz are now in stock and available.

Cute Bee Clothing for Baby

Something other than about honey. Recently came across this wonderful little baby's outfit - fully bee themed.

Perfect for a little one full of energy. Wife duly bought it, and is now packed away ready for our impending new arrival.

Special 2 for 1 on Broccoli Extract

Introductory promotion: Get yourself some of Comvita's new Broccoli Extract capsules at a special offer from us of 2 for 1 (or buy one get one free if you want to call it that).

This promotion is available as from now from our website, and also in our London shop. It will be available for the rest of April and into May. We should have some additional information on the benefits of this broccoli extract from seeds after the talk by a John Hopkins university professor at the Natural Products Expo tomorrow.

In the meantime, you can order yours here: 2 for 1 on Comvita Broccoli

Broccoli in a Pill (well a capsule at least)

Your mother always told you to eat your greens, because they were good for you. Broccoli is one of those green vegetables that we all know is good for us, but we all vary as to whether we like it, can tolerate it, or hate it.

Well, now you get get broccoli in a pill (almost). If you've seen the cartoon The Jetsons, you'll be familiar with the idea of taking a pill for your nutrition. This feels almost along those lines, although there is a bit more proper science and reason behind it.

Just what are we on about? The new Comvita Broccoli Extract. This is capsules of standardised extract taken from broccoli seeds, which researchers from none other than John Hopkins University in the USA found to contain very high levels of 'the good stuff' - glucoraphanin - which appears to be the key natural compound associated with the goodness from broccoli.

Although we have had this available for you for a little while now, it is about to get its UK main launch. This will be done with the help of a Professor from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine that has done quite a bit of research onto the protective antioxidant benefits of glucoraphanin.

We will bring you more news, and reports of the science behind this product as the main launch happens.

Try Honey for Hayfever

We're getting into spring, and along with the joys of warmer and sunnier weather, for some people it can also mean the dreaded onslaught of hayfever is around the corner.

There are a couple of more natural ways that you can address this if you are a sufferer.

It could be worth your while to visit a homeopath, as they can offer some more natural homeopathic remedies to alleviate the symptoms and help you cope better. They will tailor the remedy to yourself, rather than try to offer a 'one size fits all' approach, because people do suffer in different ways, and are affected by different pollens. Do a search (online or in a local directory) for a trained homeopath in your area, and give them a call to see if they can offer you some help.

Another completely natural way to help yourself is to take some honey. Not just any honey though, what works best is local honey - local you where you are living. This is because it will be the local pollen from the plants in your area that are affecting you, and honey from that same area will contain small amounts of those pollens, giving your body a small dose to allow it to develop some resistance to it. At the moment this is an area that does still need some more proper scientific research into it, but there is a growing amount of anecdotal evidence that it helps some people. And it won't do you and harm, plus tastes good.

Yes, we are recommending something other than New Zealand honey for this (unless you happen to be reading this from NZ), so keep your manuka honey to one side for the other things it is good for, and try to get yourself some local honey for hayfever support. Try a farmers market in your area, or look up the area beekeepers association to find appropriate suppliers.

If you happen to be in London, then occasionally we are able to stock some London honey in our physical shop, though would pay to check with us at the time, as it sells out quickly.

Comvita Honeygar - apple cider vinegar and manuka honey

Apple Cider Vinegar is a time honoured natural remedy for digestive support and other uses. In past generations it was often home-made, and indeed home made cider vinegar has been making a bit of a comeback.

Comvita Honeygar is a wonderful combination of Apple Cider Vinegar and UMF 5+ Manuka Honey.

This is a totally natural product - you can see simply by looking at a bottle, as you see some of the cloudy bits of solids that are known as the 'Mother of vinegar'. You will also find that there can be small variations in colour or taste between bottles - gain a reflection of its natural condition.

Although we've has this available in our physical shop for a while, it has now been added to the website, so that you may order it from whichever part of the UK you are based in.

Comvita Honeygar can be used as a salad dressing, or mixing with a glass of water (warm or cold).

Children's Olive Leaf Complex

Comvita have come to the rescue of parents who want to provide there children with good quality natural health supplements but struggle on the taste front.

They have added to the Olive Leaf Complex range with a new Great Berry Flavour, which should be a bit easier on younger taste buds.

Children's Olive Leaf Complex is the same high quality olive leaf extract that comes only from fresh leaves, with a simple additional of some natural flavourings to give a great berry taste.

Like the rest of the Olive Leaf Complex family, it is more than 30 times the polyphenolic antioxidant activity of an equivalent amount of extra virgin olive oil.

From the largest specialist olive leaf estate in the world.

Although this is aimed as a children's product, there is nothing wrong with 'big kid' who prefer the berry flavour form using it. It is also not recommended for children under 2 years of age without medical advice.

This is in stock now, along with the rest of the Comvita Olive Leaf Complex range.