Nutrition Diva listener Eithne asked if I would look into the benefits of manuka honey. I have to admit that, before I got her email, I had never heard of manuka honey. But it took Google only 0.20 seconds to find 2,940,000 webpages on the stuff. According to its proponents, manuka honey has powerful healing properties. It's said to be a natural antibiotic that's anti-inflammatory, good for your digestion, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Similar claims are made for other types of honey, as well. But advocates claim that manuka honey (which is honey produced from the pollen of the manuka, or tea, tree) has something that other types of honey don't. Specifically, manuka honey is high in a chemical called methylglyoxol, which appears to be responsible for most of its anti-microbial activity.
Dairy cattle (also called dairy cows or milk cows) are cattle cows bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made.Dairy cows generally are of the species Bos taurus.airy cattle (also called dairy cows or milk cows) are cattle cows bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made.
In order for cows to produce milk, they must first give birth. Male cows are referred to as bulls. Cows have 32 teeth and chew up to 50 times per minute. They typically consume up to 40 pounds of food per day and spend approximately eight hours a day chewing and eating cud.