Buy Raw Honey in Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Start with the 150g taster for $10 if you just want a crack. The 400g jar is $25 and makes the most sense for everyday use. The 6-pack is $60 if you are sorting gifts or sharing. Honeycomb is $17.99 when it is in stock.

Go the Desert jar over yoghurt and fruit if breakfast's the main event. Finke River's the better call once it's a proper slab of market sourdough doing the heavy lifting.

"Pure" and "natural" are marketing words - they only mean no added sugar, so the honey can still be heated and filtered to death. Raw means it skipped all that. Ours goes straight from the hive into the jar, unheated and unfiltered, so the enzymes and pollen that make honey worth eating are still in there.

Not certified - honest answer is nobody's honey really can be, because bees fly wherever they want. But our hives sit in remote desert country outside Alice Springs, a long way from farms and sprays. The bees work wild River Red Gum, Bloodwood and whatever flowers after rain, which is about as close to organic as honey gets.

Manuka is graded and priced for its antibacterial rating, and a lot of what's on shelves in Sunshine Coast barely has one. Ours is a table honey - light River Red Gum or the dark Finke River jar, meant to be eaten, not kept in the medicine cabinet. If you're after flavour instead of an MGO number, desert honey wins on value every time.