Filipinos love sweets. This is evident in our different foods and desserts that are usually sweet. Usually, we use sugar, brown or white to make our food or drink sweet. Have you ever thought of using honey as sweetener?
Honey is practically a sweetener that came from bees that eat nectars from flowers. Beekeepers are people who take care of bees and eventually harvest the honey. Usually, honey can be a good substitute to sugar.
The typical component analysis of a honey is composed of the following: Fructose: 38.2%, Glucose: 31.3%, Maltose: 7.1%, Sucrose: 1.3%, Water: 17.2%, Higher sugars: 1.5%, Ash: 0.2%, Other/undetermined: 3.2%. (Source: Beesource Beekeeping » Honey Composition and Properties. Beesource.com)
With these different components, honey is believed to have a nutritional effect to the person eating honey. Here are some of the health benefits that honey can give when you regularly consume it.
Health Benefits of Honey
- A person who eats honey have a low possibility of having cancer and heart diseases because honey has antioxidants and flavonoids; two elements that helps our body to avoid developing cancer and heart diseases.
- Honey can actually cure wounds and burns due to the drying effect of honey with anti-bacterial elements makes honey a good source of treatment. Honey can also be a cure for ulcer.
- Honey can help in having a beautiful and youthful skin. Honey is a good anti-bacterial that can nourish and smoothen one’s skin. Honey is widely used as an ingredient to some skin and face ointments.
- Honey can actually help you have a balance sugar level. Honey is composed of exact amount of glucose and fructose that makes your body get the right amount of sugar.
- Honey can make you avoid cough and throat irritation. This is basically because honey is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. Honey is also has probiotics that serves as good bacteria to one’s body.
Honey is a sweetener that can help us in many different ways. Try using honey with your food. Just remember not to over-eat honey because anything that too much can also be bad for our health.
