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Salem Bites: Yemeni Sidr honey, Mānuka honey, Dubai chocolate and roasted coffee

Dubai Indulgence. Now In South Africa.

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MGO is the number on the jar. It tells you how concentrated the Mānuka in front of you really is.

    MGO is the methylglyoxal naturally present in Mānuka, in milligrams per kilogram. A higher number means a stronger honey, not a better one.

    MGO 83+

    EVERYDAY

    Our gentlest Mānuka. Light, floral and easy to love — the everyday jar for tea, toast and family breakfasts.

    MGO 261+

    DAILY JAR

    Still a daily honey, with noticeably more character than 83+ without becoming assertive.

    HIGHER STRENGTH

    MGO 512+

    HIGHER STRENGTH

    Rich, dense and unmistakably Mānuka. High-strength honey for a focused daily spoonful.

    MGO 826+

    PREMIUM STRENGTH

    Deep, buttery and intensely aromatic. A premium-strength jar for those who like their Mānuka strong.

    HIGHEST STRENGTH

    MGO 1197+

    RARE / RESERVE

    An ultra-rare small-batch reserve at the very top of the MGO scale. Bottled in strictly limited numbers.

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    Why Salem Bites Is Different

    Most honey on a shelf has been heated, filtered and blended across countries until it pours the same every time. Ours has not. One grove, one season, one batch, and a label that tells you which.

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    Salem Bites
    Salem Bites
    Other “Raw”
    Other “Raw”
    Supermarket Honey
    Supermarket Honey
    Raw, Never Heated or Pasteurised
    Unfiltered, With Pollen and Enzymes Intact
    Single-Origin, Single-Harvest, Never Blended
    Single-Origin and Unblended
    Traceable to the Grove and the Season
    Protective Amber Glass Packaging
    Harvesters Paid Per Kilo, Whole Batch Bought
    The Taste Of Sidr

    The Taste Of Sidr

    Thick, dark and slow off the spoon. Closer to butterscotch than to anything you have called honey before.

    Butterscotch

    Deep and toasted. The dominant note on the first spoon.

    Date

    A dark fruit sweetness drawn straight from the Sidr bloom.

    Buttery

    Dense, smooth and spoon-coating. Never runny.

    Resin

    A long, faintly medicinal finish. The mark of true Sidr.

    Yemen.
    Where Sidr
    comes from.

    Wadi Do'an in Hadhramaut: a valley of Sidr trees fed by seasonal floodwater, worked by families who have kept the same hives for four generations.

    Pakistan.
    Orchards and
    cliff caves.

    Beri honey from the jujube orchards of Punjab and Balochistan, and wild comb cut by hand from cave mouths in the cliffs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

    Yemen. 
Where Sidr 
comes from.
    Pakistan. 
Orchards and 
cliff caves.

    Five origins. One standard for all of them.

    What our customers say

    Mountain Reserve Sidr honey with a honey dipper and toast
    ★★★★★

    “I have not bought supermarket honey since.”

    Daniel K.

    Valley Collection Sidr honey on a breakfast table
    ★★★★★

    “The cave honey is unlike anything I have tasted.”

    Heidi D.

    A jar of Valley Collection Yemeni Sidr honey

    Our harvesters keep hives the way their grandfathers did Traditional log and clay hives, set among the Sidr groves and moved as little as possible., a slower way of working that puts the health of the colony first No sugar feeding, no antibiotics, no stripping a hive bare at the end of a season.and leaves the grove better than they found it. We pay per kilo at a rate that makes careful harvesting worth doing, and we buy the whole batch.

    Meet Our Harvesters

    Meet Our Harvesters

    The families of Wadi Do'an have worked the same Sidr groves for four generations. They set the hives, read the bloom, and decide when the honey is ready. We just carry it to you.

    “You cannot rush Sidr. The tree flowers when it flowers, and if you take the honey early you have taken nothing worth having.”

    Sidr Harvesters

    Sidr Harvesters, Wadi Do'an

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