{"id":154,"date":"2025-03-14T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:30:12","slug":"patagonias-ulmo-honey-an-antibacterial-and-cancer-inhibitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/patagonias-ulmo-honey-an-antibacterial-and-cancer-inhibitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Patagonia&#8217;s Ulmo Honey: an Antibacterial and Cancer Inhibitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ulmo-honey-patagonia-andes-1024x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" style=\"width:674px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ulmo-honey-patagonia-andes-1024x440.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ulmo-honey-patagonia-andes-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ulmo-honey-patagonia-andes-768x330.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ulmo-honey-patagonia-andes-600x258.jpg 600w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ulmo-honey-patagonia-andes.jpg 1483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patagonia&#8217;s bees make monofloral honey from the flowers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eucryphia_cordifolia\">Ulmo (Eucryphia cordifolia)<\/a>, a white flowering tree; (Ulmo is Spanish for Elm). Patagonia is untouched by commercial agriculture and the harmful effects of pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Orla Sherlock, a Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/20813024\/\">compared Ulmo Honey to Manuka Honey<\/a> and concluded that Ulmo 90 had higher antimicrobial activity and could reduce inflamation more than Manuka Honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Francesca Acevedo at the Universidad de La Frontera, inTemuco, Chile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0963996917300315\">studied the bioactive properties of Ulmo Honey<\/a> and concluded that though Ulmo honey had strong antibacterial properties. The study also showed that Ulmo honey can inhibit cancer growth at least partly by modulating oxidative stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Chile&#8217;s pioneering women in science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uc.cl\/noticias\/women-scientist-behind-the-secrets-of-chilean-honey\/\">Dr. Gloria Montenegro<\/a>, has researched and popularized Ulmo honey for more than three decades. Dr. Montenegro received London&#8217;s 2021 Honey Award in platinum for developing a new honey from the Andes Mountain: for the development of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonhoneyawards.com\/awards-results-2021\/true-from-the-andes-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terra Andes honey with Active Patagonia Factor&nbsp;<\/a>(APF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulmo honey is sold online by several companies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulmohoney.com\/products\/ulmo-honey?variant=43744944128195&amp;country=US&amp;currency=USD&amp;utm_medium=product_sync&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_content=sag_organic&amp;utm_campaign=sag_organic&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw1um-BhDtARIsABjU5x5xiYiZvkB1TFURGCe6aYETSi7Rislb9uYHAHihY5sjDL_uwfeIiK4aAoxGEALw_wcB\">UlmoHoney.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patagonia&#8217;s bees make monofloral honey from the flowers of the Ulmo (Eucryphia cordifolia), a white flowering tree; (Ulmo is Spanish for Elm). Patagonia is untouched by commercial agriculture and the harmful effects of pesticides. Dr. Orla Sherlock, a Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, compared Ulmo Honey to Manuka Honey and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,110],"tags":[112,116,118,115,114,111,121],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing-power-of-honey","category-monofloral-honey","tag-chile","tag-francesca-acevedo","tag-london-honey-award","tag-orla-sherlock","tag-patagonia","tag-ulmo-honey","tag-ulmo-honey-inhibits-cancer-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}