From Our Hives to your Home

Our Honey

Simply put, 3Bee provides top-quality service in conveying New Zealand’s finest Mānuka honey from healthy hives in the remotest locations of the South Island to homes all over the world. With the deepest respect for bees, people and nature 3Bee strives to convey this legacy of excellence to you by guaranteeing this purest essence of nature reaches you in supreme quality.

3Bees

Our bees have worked tirelessly to gather nectar and pollen from the flowers of New Zealand’s unique Mānuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium) located in remote, pristine areas throughout the top of New Zealand’s South Island. Locales on which few people will ever set foot.

3BeeKeepers

Our passionate beekeepers strive to maintain the health and wellbeing of our hives and the tiny, powerful workforce within that play a significant role in keeping our planet alive. This precious honey, nature’s purest essence is carefully collected ensuring ample is left on the hive to nourish and sustain the bees.

Guardians of Quality

In one uncomplicated process honey is spun from the wax comb and decanted into drums in a certified extraction and packaging facility. From here honey may be blended or creamed according to customer needs. Every aspect of this process is critically managed to surpass all quality, hygiene and purity standards.

Authenticity Guaranteed

Highest quality honey is premium packed into our own 3Bee brand or white label packed to customer specifications. Every honey batch is independently tested for purity and authenticity, and in the case of Mānuka honey, the stringent requirements that must be met to label honey as Mānuka and assign its appropriate UMF factor or MG (Methylglyoxal) rating.


Valued Relationships

3Bee prides itself on establishing respectful, trusting relationships with landowners, suppliers and customers. Our integrity and uncompromising resolve for customer satisfaction ensures that our customers become our friends.

The Grand Finale

Then the best bit of all: delicious, authentic, raw honey spread on toast, for sweetening refreshing drinks and home-baking, perfect for marinating meats or licked straight off a spoon. 3Bee honey reaches your home in the same perfect quality as our bees enjoy back in the pristine wilderness of New Zealand.

3Bee Premium Mānuka Honey is harvested, tested, certified, packed and sealed in New Zealand ensuring every jar is of the highest quality and authenticity.

UMF Monofloral Mānuka Honey Range

3Bee UMF™ Monofloral Mānuka Honey is made exclusively by bees harvesting nectar from New Zealand’s unique, indigenous Mānuka flower (Leptospermum scoparium). This premium Mānuka Honey is world-renowned for its purity and the combination of unique components that support a healthy life. 

It is one of the most researched honey in the world with a particular interest in its anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. UMF™ certified Monofloral Mānuka Honeys all contain significant levels of components connected to healthy living.

Every single batch of 3Bee UMF™ Monofloral Mānuka Honey is independently analysed and certified for quality, potency, purity and authenticity by the UMF™ Honey Association (UMFHA).

Researchers have identified that the exceptional properties of Mānuka Honey are the result of multiple factors. The UMF™ 4 Factor Quality Assurance test, indicated by the UMF rating and quality mark on our packs, measures the level and quality of the unique and important properties present in Mānuka Honey.

The UMF™ 4 Factor Test Measures Unique Mānuka Factors that Matters.

  1. MGO – Potency

  2. Leptosperin – potency and authenticity

  3. DHA  – Shelf life of MGO

  4. HMF – the honey is fresh & alive

Please visit www.umf.org.nz/grading-system-explained/  for further information on the grading system and UMF™ quality trademark.

MGO Multifloral Mānuka Honey Range

3Bee MGO Multifloral Mānuka Honey is a natural combination of Mānuka Honey and other New Zealand native honey, it is a smooth, rich and delicious everyday honey. Every single batch of 3Bee Multifloral Manuka honey is independently tested and verified to guarantee consumers that MGO (Methylglyoxal) occurs at the levels stated. Methylglyoxal, is the naturally occurring compound found in Mānuka Honey.