all about iminohoney

The honey is pure and nothing has been added. Only honey that has the desired natural iminosugar fingerprint are used to make Iminohoney.  Honeys without the iminosugar fingerprint are not selected for Iminohoney and used instead as a food product sold in food stores labeled as African honey.

Simply, yes. The honey is tested for toxins and contaminants and is treated and packaged in food grade facilities. We recommend consultation with a medical professional or veterinarian particularly in those with diabetes or sugar-related conditions.

No. The natural key component that we measure is a stimulant that benefits both humans and dogs with the same amount of honey. So there is no need to give extra honey to a large dog or human compared to a smaller dog or human. Giving it more frequently than the regimen suggested is unlikely to provide any extra benefit. 

There are 10 sachets of honey in each pack. We suggest that optimal benefits can be achieved by taking or giving one sachet every 3 days. Therefore one pack typically lasts one month following these guidelines. 

It might be that there could be a benefit from taking/giving the product every day for the first 3 days but we do not yet have evidence to confirm that this is more beneficial than the regimen of one sachet every 3 days that we suggest. 

No. Many other honeys from different regions of the world have been tested with complex analytical methods and tools, with no similar iminosugar fingerprint. We continue to search but have yet to find alternative honeys to use at this time. 

Professor Nash has been finding batches of African honey with the desired iminosugar fingerprint for more than 15 years. It is relatively rare and is reliant on the flowers of only one plant species growing in one African region and, of course, the bees too. Disease or climate change could threaten both and disrupt supply in the future. So far, supply has been regular and adequate.

Professor Nash and his company have proprietary methods and patents protecting this discovery so this product remains an exclusive product supplied by Naturacopia in North America. 

Manuka honey is high in the toxic methylglyoxal (MGO) (gives the claimed anti-bacterial activity) and contains no iminosugars. We select our honey for low MGO and measure the iminosugar fingerprint for the key compound to ensure quality control for our product.

While many honeys have health benefits, we have yet to find any with a similar iminosugar fingerprint to that we find with these African honeys.  Remember that the honey with the desired fingerprint only come from limited regions of Africa and not all batches from those regions have the fingerprint. As a natural product, honey content vary according to season and what plants are in flower for the bees to forage. We have yet to find other honeys that we can use as Iminohoney - but we are still looking!

Iminohoney has a lot of costs associated with ensuring the product has the best chances of benefits. It is shipped and sourced from Africa to the UK where it is tested to ensure that the iminosugar fingerprint meets with our standards. The tests used are complex, high precision and high quality methods. Some batches are rejected when the fingerprint does not meet our standards. The final product is packaged at a high quality food packaging company and then, finally shipped the Naturacopia in the US. There are a lot of high cost steps in getting Iminohoney from the wilds of Africa to you but we think that its worth it.