Advanced New Zealand Bioactives. Built from Nature, Backed by Science.

Advanced New Zealand Bioactives. Built from Nature, Backed by Science.

The world sees Aotearoa New Zealand as a place of integrity, guardianship, innovation, and trusted production. At Mānuka Performance bring those values to life through advanced functional foods, nutraceutical ingredients, phytoscience, and global export innovation grounded in New Zealand’s unique natural environment and Māori worldview.

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Welcome to Aotearoa New Zealand

Advanced New Zealand Bioactives. Built from Nature, Backed by Science.

At New Zealand Story the world sees Aotearoa New Zealand as a place of integrity, guardianship, innovation, and trusted production. At Mānuka Performance we bring those values to life through advanced functional foods, nutraceutical ingredients, phytoscience, and global export innovation grounded in New Zealand’s unique natural environment and Māori worldview.

As an official FernMark Licensee (#100915), Mānuka Performance is independently recognised for our authentic connection to New Zealand through the government backed FernMark Licence Programme. The FernMark helps authenticate New Zealand origin, reinforces trust and transparency, and connects international customers and stakeholders to the reputation New Zealand has earned globally for premium quality, safety, innovation, and integrity.

Why New Zealand Matters

New Zealand is globally recognised for:

  • Premium food and nutraceutical production
  • Stringent food safety and regulatory standards
  • Transparent governance and trusted legal systems
  • Sustainable primary industries and environmental guardianship
  • Innovation across agriculture, biotechnology, and health sciences
  • Indigenous Māori knowledge systems and deep connection to land and environment

The New Zealand Story programme exists to help communicate these values internationally, positioning New Zealand businesses as trusted, future-focused, and values-led exporters. 

For Mānuka Performance, New Zealand is not simply a country of origin. It is the foundation of our science, our supply chain, our culture, and our global value proposition.


Aotearoa New Zealand to Global Innovation

Mānuka Performance develops high value products and ingredients derived from the New Zealand native honey ecosystem and associated bioactive compounds.

Our work spans:

  • Functional consumer products (CPG)
  • Sports nutrition and recovery
  • Gut health and wellness
  • Advanced nutraceutical ingredients
  • Honey phytochemistry and polyphenol science
  • Clinical and pre-clinical research
  • Bioactive intelligence and data systems
  • International research collaborations
  • Sustainable export-led value chains

Based in New Zealand, we work across a growing global ecosystem spanning Asia, the USA, India, the Middle East, and Europe.

Built on Trust, Provenance & Authenticity

International consumers increasingly want to know:

  • Where products come from
  • Who made them
  • How they were produced
  • Whether they are authentic
  • What values sit behind the brand

The FernMark programme was designed specifically to help New Zealand exporters communicate these attributes globally.

Our FernMark Licence (#100915) helps verify that Mānuka Performance products and ingredients are genuinely connected to New Zealand, backed by one of the world’s most trusted country-of-origin systems.

This matters particularly in premium health, food, nutraceutical, and bioactive markets where provenance, traceability, and authenticity are increasingly valuable.


Science Inspired by Nature

New Zealand’s isolated environment, biodiversity, and unique native flora create an extraordinary foundation for advanced bioactive discovery.

Mānuka Performance is pioneering research into:

  • Honey derived polyphenols
  • Bioavailability and functional nutrition
  • Precision quantified bioactive systems
  • Advanced honey ecosystem ingredients
  • Clinical and translational nutraceutical science

Our proprietary Polysure™ standard is helping quantify and validate unique phytochemical signatures across New Zealand honey varieties, creating a new layer of scientific understanding and commercial differentiation.

This work is supported through collaborations with researchers, laboratories, Māori agribusinesses, and international university partners.


Māori Worldview & Guardianship

As a New Zealand company operating within Māori connected value chains, we recognise that people, place, culture, and environment are deeply interconnected.

Our work embraces principles including:

  • Guardianship of natural systems
  • Long term thinking and sustainability
  • Respect for provenance and origin
  • Relationship driven partnerships
  • Ethical innovation and knowledge sharing
  • Cultural integrity and authenticity

These values align strongly with the broader New Zealand Story narrative around integrity, care for people and place, and future-focused innovation.

A Platform for Global Partnerships

We believe the future of premium health and nutrition products will increasingly be shaped by:

  • Provenance
  • Traceability
  • Scientific validation
  • Sustainability
  • Data intelligence
  • Cultural authenticity
  • Trusted production systems

New Zealand offers a uniquely credible platform from which to build these next generation solutions.

Mānuka Performance exists at the intersection of all of these trends; combining advanced phytoscience, premium New Zealand bioactives, Māori connected value chains, and export focused innovation to create globally differentiated products and ingredients.