Our Products

Our ethos

Our top priority is supporting the everyday health of the Just Bee community. We create functional products tailored to specific health needs, ensuring they taste incredible too. Every product is carefully blended in small batches here in the UK, using only the finest ingredients.

High quality honey

It all starts with the honey. We source honey from beekeepers around the world to create a unique blend. Our closest beekeepers are in Manchester (our home town) and our furthest are in New Zealand! The honey must always hit a strict set of criteria, which has taken years to refine. This includes taste, authenticity, consistency some fancy technical parameters which allow us to blend it with our active ingredients.

What active ingredients do we add to our honey?

To create Just Bee products, we blend honey in small batches with vitamins, botanicals and natural flavours. Active ingredients include: echinacea, propolis, turmeric, valerian and ginseng and royal jelly. These active ingredients are sourced from a small number of highly accredited nutraceuticals companies. 

Extensive research and development has been done to ensure the active ingredients blend well with our honey and provide you the maximum benefits for the full product shelf life.

Our flavours are all 100% natural and are designed to complement our honey.

What checks and tests do we do?

We thoroughly check all our suppliers to ensure we are receiving the highest quality ingredients. We look for accreditations, high food safety standards, and of course nice people to work with :-)

A series of tests are performed on our honey to ensure it meets the Just Bee criteria. We are testing for the freshness of the honey, its authenticity, the consistency, the vitamin levels and the antibacterial levels. Each year, we spend tens of thousands of pounds testing honey to ensure every batch meets our specification. On arrival at Honey HQ, the honey is triple checked and tasted. If it’s not right, it is rejected.

Yes, that’s a lot of tests, but we take the quality of our products very seriously.

Meet some of our beekeepers 

Back in 2014, we started off using honey from Founder Joe's Dad's beehives. We have come a long way since then and we now source honey from a network of carefully selected beekeepers across the world. Let’s meet a few…

Manchester Cathedral, UK

Beehives were installed on the roof of Manchester Cathedral over 10 years ago as part of a volunteering scheme now called Volition Community. This charity was set up to help unemployed people build their confidence, motivation, self-esteem and skills to get into work. Catherine Charnock is the resident Head Beekeeper who is supported by a number of volunteers on the programme. You can watch a video of the beekeeping at the Cathedral here or go to www.volitioncommunity.org

Manuka Mountain, New Zealand

Manuka Mountain are located in the heart of Northland New Zealand and they have an amazing story to tell. Like Just Bee, they are totally independent and are owned and operated by the Whitehead family. Managing Director Paul Whitehead began as a beekeeper over thirty years ago. In 2000, Paul established his own beekeeping operation after falling in love with the bees and their incredible honey.

We hope this page has been useful to find out more about our honey. If you have any other questions, please get in touch: buzz@justbeehoney.co.uk