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Honey: what's actually in it?

Most jars on the honey shelf are one ingredient — honey. The differences that matter are which honey (a floral blend, a single floral source, or manuka), how it is graded (UMF and MGO for manuka, KFactor for Wedderspoon), and whether the jar is pure honey at all — some products on the same shelf are honey blends (two honeys mixed) or flavoured honey (honey plus something else). A blend is still honey; a flavoured honey is honey plus an added ingredient; a "honey syrup" is usually not honey at all. The ingredient list tells you which you are holding.

This page covers jarred honey sold in Singapore: pure/floral honey, manuka honey, honey blends and flavoured honey. It does not cover honey lozenges, honey drinks, honey cakes or honey as an ingredient in other foods. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick, and it does not verify any brand's manuka authenticity claims beyond what the label/brand states — UMF/MGO grades are quoted as printed, not independently tested here.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Pure honey is one ingredient, whatever the flower. Capilano Pure Honey lists "100% Pure Australian Honey"; Langnese Golden Clear lists "Honey"; Langnese Bee Easy Wild Flower lists "Wild flower honey". The floral source changes the taste, not the ingredient count.
Manuka honey is also one ingredient — the grade is the difference. Comvita UMF 5+, 10+, 15+ and 20+ all list the same thing ("New Zealand Manuka Honey … (100%)") with a different MGO/UMF number. The grade is a potency certification, not an extra ingredient.
Blends are two honeys, and the label says so. Manuka Health MGO 30+ Manuka Honey Blend lists "Manuka honey, new zealand native bush honey" — manuka plus a second honey. It is still 100% honey, but it is not pure manuka.
Flavoured honey adds a second ingredient. The manuka honey with ginger panelled below lists "Honey & ground ginger (1%)" — honey plus ginger. That 1% is the whole point of the product, and it is in the list.
The supermarket house honeys are the gap on this page. FairPrice 100% Premium Raw Honey and Hosen Honey are both listed at FairPrice, and Meadows honey at Cold Storage/Giant, but no verbatim ingredient list was retrievable for any of them online in this pass — FairPrice publishes an ingredient section only sometimes, and not for these. They are in seen-but-not-verified until a pack photo closes them.
Manuka dominates the Singapore shelf in a way it does not elsewhere. Comvita (sold in SG through its own SG site, Guardian, HoneyWorld and official Lazada/Shopee stores), Wedderspoon, Manuka Health, Manuka Doctor, Kiva, WildCape and HoneyWorld's own range were all found on SG channels — but only the brands below had a verbatim list retrievable in this pass. A long manuka brand list with no lists is in seen-but-not-verified, not panelled on reputation.

At a glance

Product	Type	Ingredients (short)	Added sugar / other ingredient?	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Capilano Pure Honey	Pure floral honey	100% pure Australian honey	No	400g (FairPrice; 500g format also exists)	Australia
Langnese Golden Clear Honey	Pure floral honey	Honey	No	500g	Germany
Langnese Bee Easy Wild Flower Honey	Pure floral honey	Wild flower honey	No	not stated	not stated
Capilano Active Manuka Honey MGO 30+	Manuka honey	Manuka honey	No	not stated	not stated
Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 5+ (MGO 83+)	Manuka honey	NZ manuka honey (100%)	No	250g	New Zealand
Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 10+ (MGO 263+)	Manuka honey	NZ manuka honey (100%)	No	not stated	not stated
Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 15+ (MGO 514+)	Manuka honey	NZ manuka honey (100%)	No	not stated	not stated
Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 20+	Manuka honey	NZ manuka honey (100%)	No	not stated	not stated
Wedderspoon Raw Manuka Honey KFactor 16	Manuka honey, raw	Raw monofloral manuka honey	No	not stated	not stated
Egmont Manuka Honey	Manuka honey	100% New Zealand honey	No	not stated	New Zealand
Manuka Doctor Manuka Honey MGO 40+	Manuka honey	Manuka honey	No	not stated	not stated
Manuka Health MGO 30+ Manuka Honey Blend	Honey blend	Manuka honey, NZ native bush honey	No — second honey, not sugar	not stated	not stated
Manuka honey with ginger (15+ bio active)	Flavoured honey	Honey & ground ginger (1%)	Yes — ginger 1%	not stated	not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 13 products (3 pure floral, 8 single-ingredient manuka, 1 honey blend, 1 flavoured honey). Comvita's four UMF grades are four rows because the grade is printed on the jar and changes what you buy, even though the ingredient wording is the same. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Pure honey — one ingredient

Capilano Pure Honey

Pack size: 400g (FairPrice; 500g format also exists) · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): 100% Pure Australian Honey.

Capilano's own FAQ states the same thing in words: "Capilano honey is 100% pure honey. There's absolutely nothing added" and lists Singapore among the countries where Capilano is sold. The Open Food Facts entry is an Australian listing (stores: Woolworths, Coles), so this is panelled as a flagged non-SG list for a brand sold in Singapore. Pure honey No added sugar Origin: Australia

Langnese Golden Clear Honey

Pack size: 500g · Made in: Germany (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Honey.

Langnese's own FAQ states its honey is "a 100% purely natural product … without adding or removing anything" and that it complies with the European Honey Directive. Golden Clear is Langnese's standard blended honey, sold in Singapore through Shopee/Lazada resellers and import grocers. Flag: Open Food Facts entry is a German listing; no SG pack transcription was retrieved. Pure honey No added sugar Origin: Germany (brand)

Langnese Bee Easy Wild Flower Honey

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Wild flower honey.

A single floral-source honey: wildflower, rather than Langnese's Golden Clear blend. Same one-ingredient logic, different nectar source. Flag: Open Food Facts US entry; no SG pack transcription was retrieved. Pure honey Wildflower No added sugar

Manuka honey — one ingredient, graded

Capilano Active Manuka Honey MGO 30+

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retailer listing): Manuka Honey.

Capilano's manuka line: the same single-ingredient logic as its pure honey, with an MGO (methylglyoxal) rating printed on the jar — MGO 30+ here is the entry grade. Flag: retailer listing (Amazon Canada); SG pack not verified. Manuka honey MGO 30+ No added sugar

Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 5+ (MGO 83+)

Pack size: 250g · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients (retailer listing): New Zealand Manuka Honey — MGO* 83 (UMF™ 5+) (100%).

Comvita states its honeys are "pure with no additives" and sells in Singapore through its SG site, Guardian, HoneyWorld and official Lazada/Shopee stores. UMF 5+ is the entry certified grade. Flag: retailer listing (Boots, UK); SG pack not verified, but the SG brand site confirms the same product range. Manuka honey UMF 5+ / MGO 83+ No added sugar

Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 10+ (MGO 263+)

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retailer listing): New Zealand Manuka Honey — MGO* 263 (UMF™ 10+) (100%).

Same list as UMF 5+, higher grade. The MGO number is the methylglyoxal content in mg/kg; the UMF number is the certified grade that includes MGO plus leptosperin and DHA checks. Flag: retailer listing (Boots, UK); SG pack not verified. Manuka honey UMF 10+ / MGO 263+ No added sugar

Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 15+ (MGO 514+)

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retailer listing): New Zealand Manuka Honey — MGO* 514 (UMF™ 15+) (100%).

Same list, higher grade again. The four Comvita rows are kept separate because the grade — and what you pay for it — is the product difference; the ingredient list does not change. Flag: retailer listing (Boots, UK); SG pack not verified. Manuka honey UMF 15+ / MGO 514+ No added sugar

Comvita Manuka Honey UMF 20+

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retailer listing): New Zealand Manuka Honey — UMF 20+ (100%).

The highest Comvita grade panelled here. Comvita is a UMF Honey Association licensee; the UMF mark is the certification, not an ingredient. Flag: retailer listing (Chemist Warehouse NZ); SG pack not verified. Manuka honey UMF 20+ No added sugar

Wedderspoon Raw Manuka Honey KFactor 16

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retailer listing): Raw Monofloral Manuka Honey. / Raw, Unpasteurized Manuka Honey.

Wedderspoon grades by KFactor, not UMF/MGO: KFactor 16 means monofloral manuka meeting New Zealand MPI standards, and KFactor 12 is its multifloral grade. The honey is raw and unpasteurised. Do not compare a KFactor number directly with a UMF or MGO number — they measure different things. Flag: retailer listings (Amazon US/CA); SG sale via Shopee SG round-ups and resellers, SG pack not verified. Manuka honey KFactor 16 Raw, unpasteurised

Egmont Manuka Honey

Pack size: not stated · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): 100% New Zealand Honey.

A manuka honey whose label states the origin rather than a grade number in the ingredient entry itself. Flag: Open Food Facts is a community database (secondary); US entry. SG sale not verified on a named SG channel in this pass. Manuka honey Origin: New Zealand No added sugar

Manuka Doctor Manuka Honey MGO 40+

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Manuka honey.

Entry-grade MGO manuka from Manuka Doctor. Flag: Open Food Facts is a community database (secondary); no SG pack transcription retrieved. Manuka honey MGO 40+ No added sugar

Honey blends — still 100% honey, more than one honey

Manuka Health MGO 30+ Manuka Honey Blend

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Manuka honey, new zealand native bush honey.

The word "Blend" is doing real work here: this is manuka honey mixed with New Zealand native bush honey. Both ingredients are honey, so the jar is still 100% honey — but it is not pure manuka, and it should not be compared gram-for-gram with a monofloral manuka at the same MGO. Flag: Open Food Facts is a community database (secondary); countries sold listed as United States/World. SG sale not verified on a named SG channel in this pass. Honey blend Manuka + bush honey No added sugar

Flavoured honey — honey plus something else

Manuka honey with ginger (15+ bio active)

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Honey & ground ginger (1%).

Honey plus 1% ground ginger. The ginger is a real second ingredient, not a flavouring — and at 1% it is the product's entire point. Flag: Open Food Facts is a community database (secondary); the brand is not stated in the source entry retrieved, so this is panelled as a flavoured-honey example, not as a named-brand SG shelf claim. SG sale not verified. Flavoured honey Ginger 1%

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

FairPrice 100% Premium Raw Honey — listed at FairPrice (MoneyDigest SG, May 2025 round-up: "100% premium raw honey … zero additives, flavorings, or colorings", Australian origin). No verbatim ingredient list retrievable — FairPrice publishes no ingredient section for it. Needs a pack photo.
Hosen Honey 1 kg — listed at FairPrice (Hosen brand page). No verbatim list retrieved. Needs a pack photo.
Meadows honey — Cold Storage/Giant house-brand honey; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass. Needs a pack photo.
Langnese Black Forest Honey, Acacia Honey, Manuka with Black Forest Honey, Royal Jelly in Mountain Flower Honey, Manuka Honey MGO 400+ — all in Langnese's international variant list; no verbatim list retrieved for any of them in this pass. Do not assume they share the Golden Clear single-ingredient list.
Comvita UMF 25+ Special Reserve and other premium grades — sold in Singapore in limited numbers (100 jars in SG for the UMF 25+ Special Reserve, per CNA Luxury); no separate verbatim list retrieved. Same ingredient pattern as the panelled grades, but not panelled without its own source.
HoneyWorld manuka range (UMF 5+ / 15+ / 20+), WildCape UMF 8+/10+, Kiva UMF 5+/20+, Haddrell's of Cambridge, Manuka South, Mountain Harvest, Kaimai Gold, Queen Bee, Sweet Nature, Nature's Nutrition MGO 150+ Raw Manuka — all named in SG manuka round-ups (Shopee SG blog, Zotezo) as sold in Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved for any of them in this pass.
East Java & Co Raw Mountain Honey, MyHoney Avocado Blossom, The Rare Honey Company Coastal Wildflower TA 10+, Really Raw Honey — SG-sold raw honeys in the MoneyDigest SG round-up; described as pure/raw but with no verbatim list retrievable. Needs pack photos.
Rowse, Nature's Farm, Eu Yan Sang, Steens, Arataki, Cerana Honey, Go Pure, Zen Wholefoods, Anaya — named in SG honey round-ups; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
Honey syrup / "honey-flavoured syrup" products and honey sachets — no verified list retrieved in this pass for any honey-syrup product sold in Singapore. A product called "honey syrup" is not honey unless its list says so; do not panel one on the name alone.
Comvita Manuka Honey Lozenges and other honey confectionery — not jarred honey; their lists start with sugar and glucose syrup, not honey. Out of scope for this page.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g, from the source stated. Honey's sugars are the honey's own sugars (mainly fructose and glucose) — there is no "added sugar" in a pure honey, and the ingredient panels are the evidence for that. The table's sugars column is total sugars as printed. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these honeys in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned. (Open Food Facts' own Nutri-Score for honey is a different, computed scheme and is not quoted here as a Nutri-Grade.)

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across grades.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Capilano Pure Honey	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts, secondary)	338 kcal (1,416 kJ)	0.3 g	0 g	0 g	83.1 g	82.5 g	15 mg (salt 0.038 g)
Comvita Manuka Honey (UMF 5+ / 10+ / 15+ — same panel)	Per 100 g, as sold (Boots retailer nutrition)	320 kcal (1,360 kJ)	negligible	negligible	negligible	80 g	78 g	negligible (salt negligible)
Wedderspoon Raw Manuka Honey (organic, MGO 400)	Per 100 g, as sold (Labelbank product specification)	341 kcal (1,430 kJ)	<1 g	<1 g	0 g	82 g	82 g	<5 mg (salt <0.013 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: the three verified per-100 g rows cluster tightly — 320–341 kcal, 78–82.5 g sugars, effectively no fat, protein or sodium. The grade (UMF 5+ vs 15+) does not change the nutrition panel; it changes the MGO certification, which is not a nutrient.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Langnese Golden Clear, Langnese Bee Easy Wild Flower, Capilano Active Manuka MGO 30+, Comvita UMF 20+ as its own row, Egmont Manuka, Manuka Doctor MGO 40+, Manuka Health MGO 30+ Blend, the manuka honey with ginger, or any seen-but-not-verified honey above. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here, and the Comvita row above is not copied onto the UMF 20+ row even though the ingredient wording matches — the UMF 20+ nutrition panel was not separately retrieved.

How to read a honey label — the jargon, in plain English

Pure honey / 100% honey: Nothing added, nothing removed. The ingredient list is one word: honey (or the floral source, e.g. "wild flower honey"). If the list has two items, it is not pure honey in this sense — read on.
Manuka honey: Honey from bees foraging on the manuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium), native to New Zealand. The ingredient is still just honey; manuka is the floral source, and the grade is a separate certification printed on the jar.
UMF (Unique Manuka Factor): A certification trademark for manuka honey, run by the UMF Honey Association. The number (5+, 10+, 15+, 20+) is a grade covering MGO content plus leptosperin and DHA checks. Higher is a higher certified grade, not a different ingredient.
MGO (methylglyoxal): The compound in manuka honey associated with its antibacterial activity, measured in mg/kg. "MGO 263+" means at least 263 mg of methylglyoxal per kg of honey. It is a measure printed on the label, not an ingredient added to the jar.
KFactor: Wedderspoon's own grading system, based on pollen content and purity rather than MGO. KFactor 16 is monofloral manuka; KFactor 12 is multifloral. A KFactor number cannot be compared directly with a UMF or MGO number.
Blend: Two or more honeys mixed in one jar. The list names both honeys. A blend is still 100% honey — but a "manuka blend" is not the same product as a monofloral manuka, and the MGO on a blend does not mean what it means on a monofloral jar.
Raw / unpasteurised: The honey was not heated (pasteurised) after extraction. It is a processing claim, not an ingredient — the list is still just "honey".
"Honey syrup" / honey-flavoured syrup: Usually a syrup (often sugar or corn syrup based) flavoured to taste like honey. If the ingredient list does not start with honey, it is not honey, whatever the front of the bottle says.
Do not feed honey to infants under 12 months: A standard warning printed on honey jars (including Wedderspoon's). It is on the label because honey can carry botulinum spores that infants cannot handle — it is not an ingredient, but it is on every jar for a reason.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Pure, manuka, blend and flavoured honeys are different products, and this page does not rank them — and a higher UMF grade is a higher certification, not a verdict from this page.
Not an authenticity test. UMF/MGO grades are quoted as printed; this page does not independently test whether any jar contains what its label claims.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. The FairPrice and house-brand honeys Singapore shoppers actually buy cheapest are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: Capilano official FAQ and Our Honey pages (100% pure, Singapore listed among countries sold); Langnese official FAQ/About pages (100% purely natural, no additions); Comvita Singapore FAQ (SG stockists: Comvita, HoneyWorld, Guardian, official Lazada/Shopee stores) and retailer listings (Boots UK for UMF 5+/10+/15+ ingredient + per-100 g nutrition; Chemist Warehouse NZ for UMF 20+); Wedderspoon retailer listings (Amazon US/CA) and Labelbank product specification for the organic MGO 400 nutrition panel; Open Food Facts entries (Capilano Pure Honey with per-100 g nutrition, Langnese Golden Clear and Bee Easy Wild Flower, Egmont Manuka, Manuka Doctor MGO 40+, Manuka Health MGO 30+ Blend, manuka honey with ginger); MoneyDigest SG raw-honey round-up (FairPrice 100% Premium Raw Honey, East Java & Co, MyHoney, Rare Honey Co, Really Raw Honey — SG sale evidence, no lists); Shopee SG manuka round-up and Zotezo SG manuka list (SG sale evidence for the seen-not-verified brands); CNA Luxury for the Comvita UMF 25+ Special Reserve SG allocation. Limitation, stated plainly: FairPrice, Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada SG and Shopee SG category/search pages returned no ingredient sections for honey through web search in this pass, so no SG retailer ingredient section is quoted on this page and no SG pack was transcribed. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.