{"id":29006,"date":"2019-08-14T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T13:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/?page_id=29006"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:18:42","slug":"petermolan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/da\/petermolan\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Peter Molan - Opdageren af UMF"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n  <div id=\"page-header-70437969\" class=\"page-header-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"page-title dark divided-title\">\n\n        <div class=\"page-title-bg\">\n      <div class=\"title-bg fill bg-fill\"\n        data-parallax-container=\".page-title\"\n        data-parallax-background\n        data-parallax=\"-\">\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"title-overlay fill\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"page-title-inner container align-center flex-row medium-flex-wrap\" >\n              <div class=\"title-wrapper flex-col text-left medium-text-center\">\n          <h1 class=\"entry-title mb-0\">\n            DISCOVERER UNIQUE MANUKA FACTOR (UMF) IN MANUKA HONEY          <\/h1>\n        <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"title-content flex-col flex-right text-right medium-text-center\">\n        <div class=\"title-breadcrumbs pb-half pt-half\"><nav class=\"woocommerce-breadcrumb breadcrumbs \" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">Forside<\/nav><\/div>      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n     \n<style>\n#page-header-70437969 .title-bg {\n  background-image: url(https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ManukaNZ.webp);\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"container header-wrapper-divider\"><hr\/><\/div>  <\/div>\n  \r\n\r\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_1028074605\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\r\n\r\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1671825346\">\r\n\r\n\n\t<div id=\"col-992781561\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-8\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\r\n\r\n<p><em><strong>\u201cTesting for Methylglyoxal is a clear and unambiguous way of letting consumers know that the unique high bioactivity of this honey is really, special and only applicable to the MGO Manuka Honey.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><strong><br \/><\/strong>Quate from Professor Peter Molan \u2013 discoverer UMF \u2013 University of Waikato (New Zealand)<\/p>\r\n<p>Professor Peter Molan was affiliated with the University of Waikato until 2015, where since 1985 he and his team from the Waikato Honey Research Unit have been researching the special effect of Manuka Honey.<\/p>\r\n<p>The groundbreaking work that he published resulted in numerous scientific publications, in particular about the special effect of Manuka Honing; especially in the medical field.<\/p>\r\n<p>Professor Peter Molan\u2019s publications have focused on various physical conditions, foreign bacteria and the treatment of wounds with Manuka Honey.<\/p>\r\n<p>Professor Peter Molan already had a strong suspicion about this effect, which he called UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) and which was compared with a certain percentage of phenol solution. UMF and NPA are the same modes of testing. He called this 5+, 10+, 15+, 20+ and 25+ and corresponded to the respective phenol percentages of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%. This test method was found to be inaccurate due to the many error margins in the test results. However, he and his team were unable to identify the active compound at the time.<\/p>\r\n<p>Unique Manuka Factor (UMF\u00ae) values \u200b\u200bare not directly measured in the laboratory, but Unique Manuka Factor (UMF\u00ae) values \u200b\u200bare calculated from the measured concentration of Methylglyoxal in the honey according to the client\u2019s requirements. The calculation is based on the published data (*) where UMF and Methylglyoxal concentrations are measured in a series of honey samples. These calculated values \u200b\u200band test method are not accredited by IANZ and do not imply that the honey is or is not Manuka honey. UMF values \u200b\u200bless than 5 are estimated based on extrapolation of the relationship between Methylglyoxal and UMF.<\/p>\r\n<p>The test method for measuring Methylglyoxal concentrations is accredited by IANZ.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>*Isolation by HPLC and characterisation of the anti********* active fraction of New Zealand manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) honey. C. J. Adams, et al. Carbohydrate Research 343 (2008) 651-659. And, Corrigendum to \u2018\u2018Isolation by HPLC and characterization of the anti******** active fraction of New Zealand manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) honey\u201d [Carbohydr. Res.<\/em><br \/><em>343 (2008) 651]. Carbohydrate Research 344 (2009) 2609. C. J. Adams, et al.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Since 2008, Professor Peter Molan has worked closely with Professor Thomas Henle and fully supported his colleague\u2019s findings. Methylglyoxal was the connection to what Professor Peter Molan had been looking for all his life. Professor Peter Molan passed away in September 2015.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/thomashenle\/\"><strong>Professor Thomas Henle discovered this connection in 2006; Methylglyoxal.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\r\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1369250348\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-4\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\r\n\r\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1013716806\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.manukanewzealand.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/molan-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1013716806 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1369250348 > .col-inner {\n  max-width: 500px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1028074605 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29613,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29006","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UMF Manuka Honing - The discovery of Professor Peter Molan | MNZ\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Methylglyoxal testing is a clear and unambiguous way to let consumers know, supported by Peter Molan; 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