You may already enjoy it on toast, but you may not know that a certain type of honey can be used to help heal cuts and ulcers too.
Nowadays, people tend to use honey for not much more than spreading on toast or using in baked goods and hot beverages, but it hasn't always been the way.
As the growth in all things natural to improve health continues to grow, people choose traditional remedies above pharmaceutical products for everyday ailments.
Manuka honey is produced from Leptospermum plants, which grow in New Zealand and some parts of Australia.
Honey produced from different plants has different properties, and not all honey is particularly antibacterial.
Enzymes in honey slowly release hydrogen peroxide, but antibacterial activity resulting from this may lessen as hydrogen peroxide is broken down by the body's own enzymes.
Manuka honey, however, contains an additional antibacterial component, which is more stable, and therefore able to stay in the body longer and fight infection.
The strength of Manuka honey and its efficacy at stimulating the body's own resources to heal itself is classified according to "Unique Manuka Factor" (UMF).
The healing and restorative properties of Manuka honey can help heal everyday cuts and grazes and even more severe lacerations and burns and even bed sores and tropical ulcers.
It can be sterilised for use on wounds without losing its antibacterial properties, and it offers an alternative to pharmaceutical treatments that is proving a firm favourite with many seeking natural remedies to soothe, hydrate and heal wounds.
Scientists in New Zealand have developed Comvita Manuka Care 18+, a sterilised form of Manuka honey that is high potency - with a UMF of 18 - and easy to use.