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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   The world’s most precious — and priciest — honey may not be such a sweet   
   deal after all.   
      
   Manuka honey is a health and beauty elixir that Scarlett Johanssen, Kourtney   
   Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow and hundreds of chic New Yorkers swear by.   
      
   But most of the supposed manuka on store shelves worldwide is a falsely   
   labeled sham, according to research commissioned by the Sunday Times of London.   
      
   A mass-spectrometer analysis compared genuine manuka, direct from New Zealand   
   hives, to manuka-labeled honey sold in British stores and online through   
   Amazon.   
      
   The researchers found that the real deal contained four specific compounds   
   that could not be detected in any of the retailers’ supposed manuka.High-end   
   London grocer Fortnum & Mason cleared all the “manuka honey” off its   
   shelves last week when its    
   product failed the British paper’s test.   
      
   The sticky stuff is made by bees in New Zealand, where they feed on manuka   
   bushes that grow in the wild. The rare plants are so inaccessible that honey   
   farmers seek them out with helicopters and drop hives nearby.   
      
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