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Professor Peter Molan Phd, MBE is a Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Honey Research Unit at New Zealand’s University of Waikato.
For the last twenty years, Professor Molan and his team have studied Manuka Honey, and have analysed what it is that makes Manuka so powerful at dealing with human infections.
Honey’s antibacterial properties derive mostly from a substance called Hydrogen Peroxide, which is produced by an enzyme called Glucose Oxidase. Whilst all honeys contain some level of Glucose Oxidase, the amounts present depend on the climate, geography, and nectar sources found by the honeybees.
As well as strongly defined levels of Glucose Oxidase, The Honey Research Unit has also discovered that Manuka honey has another, special non-Peroxide component, found uniquely in honey from leptospermum scoparium that makes Manuka so active and so effective a weapon in the fight against infections.