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Honey - effectiveness, application, myths and facts
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- Bee honey contains many valuable vitamins and minerals
- Honey is healthier than sugar
- Honey has an antibacterial effect
- Bee honey effective against tooth decay?
- Bee honey does not make you as thick as white sugar
- It contains important antioxidants
- Honey works against coughing
- He owns a low-sugar diet?
- Honir can replace white sugar?
- Honey is not a staple food
- Honey helps with wound healing
- Is suitable for bee honey for baby food?
- Is every bee honey suitable for the treatment of wounds??
- Bee honey is not contaminated with toxins as a natural product
- Use of bee honey as a medicine and seasoning the proof of its healing properties?
- Conclusion
Bee honey contains many valuable vitamins and minerals
The German Beekeeping Association says honey contains about 180 ingredients such as potassium, magnesium, copper, sodium, potassium, iron and zinc, vitamins B1, B 2 and C, thiamine and niacin. That's right, but the proportion of these minerals and vitamins is too small to really matter in your daily diet. For this they would have to take honey kilos, which would be anything but healthy with the large amount of calories and sugar.
Even our ancestors used honey as medicine. (Image: LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS / fotolia.com) Honey is healthier than sugar
Yes and no. Bee honey is 80 percent sugar. The other 20 percent are mainly water. The sugar in honey consists of fructose, glucose, sucrose, melezitose and oligosaccharides. About 38 percent are fructose and about 30 percent glucose. Table sugar consists of 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The body uses these sugar forms all as sugar. And, to a certain extent, it is vital, but it may lead to excessively high blood pressure, obesity, heart trouble, diabetes, and poor memory.
Honey has an antibacterial effect
It contains the enzyme glucose oxidase, which produces hydrogen peroxide. This should help to heal wounds and burns. However, the amount of these enzymes is too small to be serious against infections. But warm milk with honey stimulates the salivation and thus relieves the attack on an infected mucous membranes.
Bee honey effective against tooth decay?
He is said to work against tooth decay by the enzymes fight the pathogen Streptococcus mutans. For this reason, he should represent an alternative to table sugar, which favors caries known.
However, the pathogens also feed on the honey sugar as well as the white and straight honey pulp adheres particularly well to the teeth and provides the streptococci so a pantry. As with other sugars too, so you should brush your teeth well after consumption.
Bee honey does not make you as thick as white sugar
Food honey has 320 calories per 100 grams. Whoever eats a lot of honey, gets fat. The German Nutrition Society advises not to consume more than 10% of the energy intake from free sugars and does not distinguish between other sugars and sugar. Honey contains fewer calories than table sugar because it is 20 percent water.
It contains important antioxidants
Bee honey actually provides phenols, enzymes, flavonoids, and acids that have antioxidant effects and are said to lower the risk of strokes and heart failure. The reason for this is that the antioxidants lower blood pressure, which widens the arteries and promotes blood flow.
Honey has many healthy and healing properties. (Image: BillionPhotos.com/fotolia.com) However, this effect is neutralized at best, as sugar raises blood pressure above a necessary level. To consume the antioxidants to a greater extent, you would have to eat more honey, which also raises blood pressure.
Honey works against coughing
Forest and meadow honey is an old home remedy for cough and cold. As a reason, the healing enzymes are stated again and again. He actually works against acute irritated cough and cold when he is drunk with tea or warm milk. So he moistened the mucous membranes and stimulates the salivation.
He owns a low-sugar diet?
Basically, if you want to reduce sugar, bee honey is also reduced. Two teaspoons of honey are equivalent to about a tablespoon of white sugar. When I trade sugar in the same proportion through honey, I change next to nothing.
Honir can replace white sugar?
Honey has a strong taste and less mass than sugar. For a neutral sweetness as a substitute for white sugar, it is not suitable. Due to the contained water, it offers less mass than sugar and therefore can not simply be used one to one when baking. You need to reduce the added liquid in baking recipes.
Honey is not a staple food
Bee honey, like other sugar foods, is a stimulant that you should only consume in small amounts, such as chocolates or gummy bears.
Honey, like sugar, should only be consumed in moderation. (Image: jd-photodesign / fotolia.com) Honey helps with wound healing
Applied externally, bee honey protects wounds and aids in healing. First, the mass itself forms a layer that stops bacteria. Second, the sugar ensures that cleansing wound secretions form. Third, the sugar mass removes water from pathogens so that they can multiply worse. Added to this, though to a lesser extent, is the healing effect of hydrogen peroxide and methylglyoxal. The substances of bee honey are important in that infectious bacteria have not yet developed any resistance against them as with many established antibiotics.
Is suitable for bee honey for baby food?
Children like honey, because it is sweet and has its own taste. But it is not suitable for babies under the age of one. It is not excluded that bacteria got into the sweet paste, which can trigger infant botulism. The undeveloped immune system of babies can not ward off such pathogens yet.
Is every bee honey suitable for the treatment of wounds??
Doctors use medical honey as an ointment. In contrast to food honey, it is not heated much, but treated with gamma rays. This is how bacteria die, but the healing substances are preserved.
Bee honey is not contaminated with toxins as a natural product
79 percent of all honey samples in Europe were contaminated with neonicotinoids in one study. These pesticides are responsible for the decline of bees and bumblebees. In bees, they lead to confusion and disorientation and ultimately to death. Also on other continents, the bees are burdened with these poisons, often even with several types of neonicotinoids.
The measured levels of on average 1, 8 ng per 1 g bee honey are not yet considered harmful when humans ingest them. However, scientists today strongly suggest that neonicotinoids, even in smaller doses, have a negative effect on human brain metabolism and that possibly the valid maximum levels in foods have to be reassessed.
Honey is also contaminated with pesticide residues in Europe. (Image: C. Schüßler / fotolia.com) Use of bee honey as a medicine and seasoning the proof of its healing properties?
Until well into the Middle Ages sugar from sugar cane was a very expensive luxury product and was traded in pharmacies. Most people used sweet-thickened juices or honey as sweeteners as the only options.
They never consumed the same amount of sugar as we do today and were more likely to have a problem with hypoglycaemia than with hypoglycaemia. This was aggravated because most people worked hard physically and burned so much more energy than we do today. So they needed bee honey without being in danger of eating too much of it.
Conclusion
Bee honey is a stimulant and not suitable for rich consumption. The rule of thumb is the same as with white sugar: adults should not eat more than 12 teaspoons a day; Since honey is 20 percent water, it can easily be three more. There are vitamins, minerals and enzymes in honey that are not found in white sugar, but the effect of sugar in the body is similar to that of other sugars. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)