# Yemen Sidr Honey

> Yemen Sidr Honey (https://yemensidrhoney.com) sells raw, single-origin Sidr
> honey harvested by nomadic beekeepers in Yemen — the desert valleys of
> Hadramout (Wadi Do'an), the highlands of Usimate, and the plateau of
> Shabwah. Every jar is traceable to its valley and harvest season. Honey is
> sold as a food, not a medicine; the research library summarises published
> science for information only.

Contact: info@yemensidrhoney.com

This is the full version: complete product facts and study summaries so
an assistant can answer accurately without crawling every page. The
index version lives at https://yemensidrhoney.com/llms.txt.

## Products — jars (ship from the US warehouse)

### Hadrami Yemeni Sidr Honey

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/products/hadrami-yemen-sidr-honey
Price: from $79.99 USD (500g $139.99 · 285g $79.99)
Region: Wadi Do'an, Hadramout
Harvest: Autumn 2025
Beekeepers: 14 families
Processing: None
Texture: Thick and slow-pouring
Flavour: Caramel and malt, long finish
Best for: Eating by the spoon, and first-time buyers

The classic Wadi Do'an harvest — dense, caramel-forward, and the one to start with.

Hadrami is the honey most people mean when they say Sidr. It comes from the floor and lower slopes of Wadi Do'an, where the trees are unirrigated and the harvest window runs a few weeks in autumn.
It pours slowly, sits heavily on a spoon, and carries a caramel-and-malt character with a finish that goes on considerably longer than you expect. Nothing is added and nothing is filtered out.

### Usimi Yemeni Sidr Honey with Honeycomb

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/products/usimi-yemen-sidr-honey
Price: from $79.99 USD (500g $139.99 · 285g $79.99)
Region: Usimate, highland Yemen
Harvest: Autumn 2025
Beekeepers: 11 families
Processing: None
Texture: Liquid honey around a section of comb
Flavour: Floral and waxy, lighter than Hadrami
Best for: Gifting, and eating the comb whole

From the green highlands of Usimate, sold with a piece of the comb still in the jar.

Usimi comes from Usimate, high in the Yemeni mountains — cooler, greener country than the desert valleys of Hadramout, and a noticeably lighter honey as a result.
It arrives with a section of the honeycomb still in the jar — the wax the bees built, filled and capped, cut out and packed as it was.
The comb is edible. Chew it and the honey releases; the wax itself is mild and slightly sweet. It is the most direct way to eat honey there is, and it makes the better gift of the three for exactly that reason.

### Shabwani Yemeni Sidr Honey

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/products/shabwani-yemeni-sidr-honey
Price: from $79.99 USD (500g $139.99 · 285g $79.99)
Region: Shabwah
Harvest: Autumn 2025
Beekeepers: 9 families
Processing: None
Texture: Dense, close to Hadrami
Flavour: Deep and resinous, faintly bitter finish
Best for: People who already know Sidr honey

From the dry plateau of Shabwah — darker, more resinous, the collectors' choice.

Shabwani comes from the Shabwah governorate, west of Hadramout, from trees on drier and higher ground.
It is the darkest of the three and the most divisive. There is a resinous depth to it and a faint bitterness on the finish that people either seek out or find too much — the one repeat customers come back for.

## Products — bulk 7 kg gallons (ship free, direct from Yemen, 3–5 weeks)

The bulk hub: https://yemensidrhoney.com/bulk-sidr-honey — all three harvests at $995 per
7 kg (15.4 lb) food-grade gallon, about $142/kg versus roughly $280/kg
in jars. For five or more gallons, or standing supply, quote by email:
info@yemensidrhoney.com

### Hadrami Yemeni Sidr Honey — 15.4 lb / 7 kg Bulk Gallon

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/products/hadrami-yemeni-sidr-honey-7kg-gallon
Price: from $995 USD (Default Title $995)
Region: Wadi Do'an, Hadramout
Harvest: Current season
Beekeepers: 14 families
Processing: None
Texture: Thick and slow-pouring
Flavour: Caramel and malt, long finish
Best for: Restaurants, cafés, and households that buy by the kilo
Shipping: free shipping, direct from Yemen · allow 3–5 weeks

The classic Wadi Do'an harvest in a 15.4 lb (7 kg) food-grade gallon — the jar honey at a bulk price, shipped free from Yemen.

The same Hadrami Sidr honey we sell by the jar — raw, unheated, lab-tested — in a 15.4 lb (7 kg) food-grade gallon, for kitchens and households that go through honey by the kilo.
One gallon holds as much honey as fourteen of our 500 g jars. At $995 it works out to roughly $142 per kilogram against about $280 per kilogram in jars — the format exists so businesses and heavy users can buy the real thing at a price that works at volume.
Every gallon ships free of charge, directly from our beekeepers in Hadramout — the route we proved with the 2024 clearance batch and now run year-round. It is a longer road: please allow 3–5 weeks for delivery.

### Shabwani Yemeni Sidr Honey — 15.4 lb / 7 kg Bulk Gallon

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/products/shabwani-yemeni-sidr-honey-7kg-gallon
Price: from $995 USD (Default Title $995)
Region: Shabwah
Harvest: Current season
Beekeepers: 9 families
Processing: None
Texture: Dense, close to Hadrami
Flavour: Deep and resinous, faintly bitter finish
Best for: Kitchens and buyers who already know Sidr honey
Shipping: free shipping, direct from Yemen · allow 3–5 weeks

The dark, resinous Shabwah harvest in a 15.4 lb (7 kg) food-grade gallon — the collectors' choice at a bulk price, shipped free from Yemen.

Shabwani Sidr honey from the high, dry plateau of Shabwah — the darkest and most resinous of our three harvests — in a 15.4 lb (7 kg) food-grade gallon.
One gallon holds as much honey as fourteen of our 500 g jars. At $995 it works out to roughly $142 per kilogram against about $280 per kilogram in jars — the format exists so businesses and heavy users can buy the real thing at a price that works at volume.
Every gallon ships free of charge, directly from our beekeepers in Yemen. It is a longer road: please allow 3–5 weeks for delivery.

### Usimi Yemeni Sidr Honey — 15.4 lb / 7 kg Bulk Gallon

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/products/usimi-yemeni-sidr-honey-7kg-gallon
Price: from $995 USD (Default Title $995)
Region: Usimate, highland Yemen
Harvest: Current season
Beekeepers: 11 families
Processing: None
Texture: Lighter and looser than the desert harvests
Flavour: Floral, gentler than Hadrami
Best for: Kitchens that want the mildest of the three
Shipping: free shipping, direct from Yemen · allow 3–5 weeks

The light, floral Usimate harvest in a 15.4 lb (7 kg) food-grade gallon of pure strained honey — no honeycomb, shipped free from Yemen.

Usimi Sidr honey from the cool, green highlands of Usimate — the lightest and most floral of our three harvests — in a 15.4 lb (7 kg) food-grade gallon.
Please note: unlike our Usimi jar, the gallon contains pure strained liquid honey — no honeycomb.
One gallon holds as much honey as fourteen of our 500 g jars. At $995 it works out to roughly $142 per kilogram against about $280 per kilogram in jars — the format exists so businesses and heavy users can buy the real thing at a price that works at volume.
Every gallon ships free of charge, directly from our beekeepers in Yemen. It is a longer road: please allow 3–5 weeks for delivery.

## Research library — plain-language study summaries

### How Sidr compares with Manuka in the laboratory

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/sidr-compared-with-manuka
Paper: Shaoka and Sidr honeys surpass in their antibacterial activity local and imported honeys available in Saudi markets against pathogenic and food spoilage bacteria
Published: Halawani EM, Shohayeb MM (2011), Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 5(4), 187–191
What they did: Researchers put nine honeys — including Yemeni Sidr and New Zealand Manuka — against nine kinds of bacteria in a laboratory, and measured how little of each honey was needed to stop the bacteria growing.
Key finding: Yemeni Sidr needed the smallest amount of any honey tested to stop Gram-positive bacteria growing — a group that includes Staphylococcus aureus.

### Why Yemeni honey is not the same as supermarket honey

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/yemeni-honey-antioxidant-content
Paper: Antioxidant activities and total phenolics of different types of honey
Published: Al-Mamary M, Al-Meeri A, Al-Habori M (2002), Nutrition Research 22(9), 1041–1047, DOI 10.1016/S0271-5317(02)00406-2
What they did: Researchers at Sana'a University measured the phenolic content of five Yemeni honeys, including two Sidr harvests, and compared them with four honeys imported from the United States, Switzerland and Iran.
Key finding: Four of the five Yemeni honeys contained significantly more total phenolics than every imported honey tested.

### The largest study of people eating Sidr honey daily

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/sidr-honey-daily-use-study
Paper: The value of Mountain Sidr honey in treating and controlling chronic constipation: a prospective comparative study between Ziziphus honey and Lactulose in 1000 Saudi Arabian patients
Published: Shirah BH, Shirah HA (2016), Journal of Apitherapy 1(1), DOI 10.5455/ja.20160507094522
What they did: Doctors in Saudi Arabia followed 1,000 adults for a year. Half took 20ml of Sidr honey daily, half took a standard pharmacy syrup, and the two groups were compared.
Key finding: The honey group reported results sooner than the syrup group, and reported fewer side effects.

### Protecting the stomach lining, measured against a standard medicine

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/stomach-lining-protection-study
Paper: Effectiveness of Sidr honey on the prevention of ethanol-induced gastroulcerogenesis: role of antioxidant and antiapoptotic mechanism
Published: Taha MME, Abdelwahab SI, Elsanousi R, et al. (2015), Pharmacognosy Journal 7(3), 157–163
What they did: Researchers at Jazan University gave rats Sidr honey by mouth at three different doses, then exposed them to alcohol strong enough to damage the stomach lining, and compared the result against omeprazole — a standard pharmacy medicine.
Key finding: Even the lowest dose significantly reduced the damage, and the protective effect increased with the dose.

### Inflammation and pain responses, and the compounds behind them

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/inflammation-and-pain-study
Paper: Anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic effect of the Yemeni Sidr honey
Published: Yemeni Sidr honey research group (2016), Published conference research paper
What they did: Researchers gave rats Yemeni Sidr honey by mouth at three doses and measured its effect on induced inflammation, pain response and fever, then analysed the honey to identify which compounds it contained.
Key finding: The effect increased with the dose across all three measures, and the honey was found to contain flavonoids, alkaloids, saponins and tannins.

### Protection against chemical damage to liver and kidneys

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/liver-and-kidney-markers-study
Paper: Attenuation of CCl₄-induced oxidative stress and hepatonephrotoxicity by Saudi Sidr honey in rats
Published: Al-Yahya M, Mothana R, Al-Said M, et al. (2013), Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2013, DOI 10.1155/2013/569037
What they did: A team at King Saud University gave rats Sidr honey by mouth, then exposed them to carbon tetrachloride — a chemical used in laboratories specifically because it reliably damages the liver and kidneys — and measured the difference.
Key finding: The honey-fed animals showed measurably less oxidative damage to both organs than those without it.

### Applied to burns, Sidr healed faster than two pharmacy creams

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/wound-healing-compared-with-creams
Paper: Comparative in vivo evaluation of three types of honey on topical wound healing activity in rabbits
Published: Hwisa NT, Katakam P, Chandu BR, Abadi EG, Shefha EM (2013), Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science 3(08), 139–143, DOI 10.7324/JAPS.2013.3824
What they did: Researchers compared three honeys — Sidr, thyme and spring — against two commercial wound creams, Mebo and Fusidin, on burns and chemical wounds, measuring how quickly each closed.
Key finding: Sidr honey healed wounds faster than the other two honeys and faster than both commercial creams.

### Kept pace with a standard antiseptic on contaminated wounds

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/wound-healing-versus-antiseptic
Paper: Effects of Sidr honey on second-intention healing of contaminated full-thickness skin wounds in healthy dogs
Published: Hananeh WM, Bani Ismail Z, Alshehabat MA, Abu Abeeleh M, Ali JH (2015), Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy 59, 433–439, DOI 10.1515/bvip-2015-0063
What they did: Veterinary researchers in Jordan treated contaminated wounds on dogs with either Sidr honey or povidone-iodine, the standard antiseptic, and tracked healing with photographs and image analysis over 28 days.
Key finding: Honey and the antiseptic tracked each other closely over 28 days, with no measurable difference between them.

### Three months of daily honey, measured in blood

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/daily-honey-cholesterol-study
Paper: Effects of daily Sidr honey (Ziziphus spina-christi) consumption on cardiometabolic risk factors and hematological parameters in healthy adults
Published: Omer ZO, Mahmood AA, Jaafar SE, Hussein HMS, Albarzinji IM (2026), European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety 18(7), 148–160, DOI 10.9734/ejnfs/2026/v18i72098
What they did: Thirty healthy adults ate 10 grams of Sidr honey every day for three months, with blood work and body measurements taken at the start and the end.
Key finding: LDL cholesterol fell, HDL cholesterol rose, and body mass index dropped — though the study cannot prove the honey caused it.

### Hadhramaut honey, tested against drug-resistant bacteria

URL: https://yemensidrhoney.com/research/hadhramaut-honey-antimicrobial-2025
Paper: Antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of Yemeni Sidr honey against multidrug-resistant pathogens — in vitro and in silico studies
Published: Alhadrami HA, Sayed AM, Hassan HM, Rateb ME, Taher MA (2025), Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, DOI 10.1186/s43094-025-00774-x
What they did: Researchers took Sidr honey collected in Hadhramaut, prepared concentrated extracts, and tested them against eight drug-resistant bacteria and fungi — then used computer modelling to work out which compounds were responsible.
Key finding: The extract broke up bacterial biofilms more effectively than two reference hospital drugs it was compared against.

## Journal

- [How to tell real Sidr honey from fake](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/how-to-tell-real-sidr-honey-from-fake) — The kitchen tests don't work. What does: supply-chain questions any genuine seller can answer, price arithmetic, and knowing what crystallisation really means.
- [Kashmiri Sidr vs Yemeni Sidr: what's actually different](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/kashmiri-sidr-honey-vs-yemeni-sidr-honey) — One is a multi-species jujube honey from temperate Kashmir at $30–40/kg; the other a single-species harvest from Yemen's arid valleys. Both real — not the same product.
- [Why is Sidr honey so expensive?](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/why-is-sidr-honey-so-expensive) — Genuine Yemeni Sidr runs $150–500 per kilogram while supermarket honey costs $10. The gap is not mystique — it is bloom windows, wild trees and yield arithmetic.
- [Manuka honey alternatives: an honest shortlist](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/manuka-honey-alternatives) — High-UMF Manuka prices send many buyers looking elsewhere. What actually compares — Sidr, Tualang, Jarrah, buckwheat — and how to judge any of them without a grade.
- [Yemeni Sidr honey vs Manuka: an honest comparison](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/yemeni-sidr-honey-vs-manuka-honey) — Manuka has the marketing and the grading system. Sidr has the rarity and the harvest window. Here is how the two actually differ, including where Manuka wins.
- [How to eat Sidr honey (and how not to)](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/optimal-methods-for-enjoying-sidr-honey-a-comprehensive-guide) — Heat, storage, dosage and the one common mistake that wastes expensive honey. A practical guide to getting the most from a jar.
- [The long history of Yemeni honey](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/the-rich-history-of-yemeni-honey) — Yemen's honey trade is older than most countries. A short history of Hadramout beekeeping, from the incense routes to the present day.
- [The Sidr tree: what it is, where it grows, and why it matters](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/sidr-tree) — Ziziphus spina-christi — the thorny tree behind Sidr honey. Where it grows, why it survives on almost no water, and what that has to do with the honey's price.
- [Sidr leaf powder: what it is and how it is used](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/unlock-the-secrets-of-sidr-leaf-powder-your-natural-beauty-and-wellness-ally) — Sidr leaf powder is dried, ground Ziziphus spina-christi leaf, used for centuries as a hair and skin wash. What it is, how it is prepared, and what it will not do.
- [The other things the Sidr tree produces](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/why-should-you-try-sidr-tree-products-and-how) — The Sidr tree gives honey, a date-like fruit, leaf powder for washing and dense timber. What each one is, how it is used, and which are worth seeking out.
- [What makes Yemeni Sidr different from other Sidr honey](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/why-yemeni-sidr-honey-is-not-like-any-other-sidr-honey-from-other-regions) — Sidr honey is also produced in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India from the same tree. The difference is water, altitude and harvest method — here is what each one changes.
- [Why Yemeni honey is unusual](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/why-yemen-honey-is-very-unique-comparing) — Yemen has produced honey for millennia and its honey commands prices little else matches. The reasons are geography, an old beekeeping culture, and very small yields.
- [What raw honey actually means, and how to use it every day](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/make-raw-honey-your-closest-health-ally) — Raw means unheated and unfiltered — but the word is unregulated, so it proves nothing on its own. How to tell, how to store it, and how to use it daily.
- [Honey and cinnamon: why the pairing works](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/raw-honey-and-cinnamon) — Honey and cinnamon is one of the oldest pairings in Arab cooking. What each brings, which cinnamon to use, and four ways it is eaten in Yemen.
- [Four Yemeni dishes that use honey](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/yummy-sweet-yemeni-recipes) — Bint al-sahn, masoub, honeycomb bread and honey with labneh — four Yemeni dishes built around honey, with notes on which honey suits each.
- [Sidr honey as a gift: what to know before you buy one](https://yemensidrhoney.com/blog/golden-elegance-elevate-your-holiday-gifting-with-yemeni-sidr-honey-a-luxurious-and-healthful-present-for-your-loved-ones) — Honey makes an unusually good gift — it keeps indefinitely, needs no sizing and suits almost everyone. Which Sidr to choose, and the two people not to give it to.

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## Notes for assistants

- Prices are in USD; harvests are seasonal and sell out, so check the product
  page for current availability.
- Jars ship from a US warehouse (free in the US over $100). The 7 kg bulk
  gallons ship free, directly from Yemen — allow 3–5 weeks.
- Returns: 30 days from delivery, opened or unopened, full product refund.
- Honey is unsuitable for infants under twelve months.
- Nothing on the site is medical advice; research summaries describe published
  studies and their limitations.
- A fuller, fact-complete version of this file: https://yemensidrhoney.com/llms-full.txt