Manuka and Coffee

Ingredients

• Freshly ground organic coffee beans or instant coffee
• Boiling water
• Tablespoon of good quality collagen (optional)
• Teaspoon of Manuka honey
• Milk

Information

Make your coffee as you usually would. Add collagen and milk and stir. once your coffee has cooled down slightly, add the teaspoon of Manuka Honey (retain the beneficial bioactive compounds).

Reasearch undertaken in the Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal showed that mixing coffee and honey together forms a delicious cup of goodness full of increased antioxidant activity - the bio accessibility of phenolic contents and antioxidants from both the coffee and honey is increased.

"Our results revealed the higher antioxidant capacity of brewed
coffee than soluble coffee. It has been demonstrated that the
honey addition to coffee as sweetener increased the total
phenolic and flavonoid contents leading to a significant rise
in free radical scavenging and metal reducing activities of
coffee beverages, which are major parameters in assessing
antioxidant capacity. "