Sidr honey sells at a price that invites imitation, so most brands now say the words “lab tested”. The words are easy. The document behind them is not. Before you trust any Sidr honey result, including ours, check five things.
1. Does the result name the harvest?
Sidr activity changes with the season and the rain. A honey tested three years ago tells you about that harvest, not about the jar being shipped to you today. A result with no harvest year on it cannot be matched to the honey in front of you. Ask which harvest the figure belongs to.
2. Is there a laboratory reference number?
A real laboratory report carries a reference you could quote back to the laboratory that issued it. A figure typed into a product description, with no reference and no report behind it, is a marketing number. The reference is what makes the result checkable by someone other than the seller.
3. Does the certificate name the honey it tested?
A brand selling Sidr from several valleys is selling several different honeys. Different valleys, different beekeepers and different seasons produce different results — that is the nature of wild honey, and any honest seller will tell you so. One certificate cannot describe four origins at once. Check that the document names the honey you are actually buying.
4. Is the C4 sugar result published as a number?
Total activity and adulteration are two different questions. Total activity says nothing about whether cane or corn syrup was added; the C4 sugar test is the one that answers that. Many listings say “tested for purity” without ever publishing a C4 figure. Ask for the number, not the word.
5. Can you actually read it?
A photograph of a document with no readable date, reference or product name is a picture, not a proof. The same is true of a certificate shown as an image with nothing written around it: you cannot search it, check it, or match it to a jar. A result that is meant to be verified is written out.
Our current jar, against the same five questions
We hold ourselves to this list, which is why we publish every harvest separately rather than one figure for the whole range.
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Harvest: 2026, Wadi Doan, Hadramout, Yemen
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Total activity (TA): 26.8 for Premium Yemeni Sidr Honey, 33.4 for Royal Yemeni Sidr Honey
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C4 sugar result: 1.0
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Tested by: ALS Food and Environmental NZ
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Laboratory reference: 26-01485-3 (Premium), 26-01485-2 (Royal)
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Certificate of origin: issued in Yemen for the 2026 harvest
Our figure is not the highest number advertised in Australia, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. It is the number for the harvest in the jar, tested when that harvest landed, with the reference to prove it. When the next harvest is tested, that figure will be published in its place.
Every result we have, current and past, is listed here: Sidr honey lab results by harvest.
A note on what a high number means
Total activity describes the honey as measured in a laboratory. It is not a health claim and we do not make one. Honey is not suitable for infants under 12 months.
