Efficacy and function of Baihua honey
Honey is a kind of health food, which tastes sweet and contains monosaccharides that can be absorbed by the human body without digestion. Fresh and ripe honey contains more than 70% invert sugar (glucose and fructose), a small amount of sucrose (less than 5%), enzymes, protein, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and antibiotics.
1, honey contains more than 70% invert sugar, which can be directly absorbed and utilized by human intestinal wall cells without being digested by the human body, which is particularly important for children, the elderly and people recovering from illness; Taking honey regularly can help digestion.
2. Honey contains more than a dozen amino acids, a variety of active enzymes and some rich macro and trace elements needed by human body. Honey contains no fat and is the best natural food for the elderly, patients with hypertension and heart disease.
3. Honey is rich in calcium and phosphorus, which is the best tonic for children's bone formation and calcium deficiency in the elderly. The heat generated by honey in human body is equivalent to 15 times that of milk; The content of VB is equivalent to that of eggs and 16 times that of glucose and apples. Taking honey can quickly restore fatigue, enhance endurance, delay aging and prolong life.
Honey is rich in minerals, such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron and copper, phosphorus and vitamins.
5, honey has a strong bactericidal and bacteriostatic effect. Regular consumption of honey is not only harmless to teeth, but also plays a role in oral sterilization. When honey is used as a skin wound dressing, bacteria cannot grow. Honey can also treat moderate skin injury, effectively clean the wound infected by bacteria and prevent the wound from festering; Can also treat skin ulceration, just apply honey to the wound and bandage it. Honey also has a good effect on fire injury and burn. Apply honey immediately after the injury. Honey can absorb moisture from wounds and prevent edema. If you add a little flour, you can prevent scarring.
The benefits of drinking honey
1, skin care and beauty. Honey is made after bees collect pollen. Female friends want their skin to be as crystal clear, elastic and shiny as flowers, and honey can achieve this effect. And honey is easily absorbed by the skin. As long as you apply honey water to your skin, you can make your skin more delicate and smooth. Some skin care products on the market will add honey.
2. Regulate intestinal secretion. It is recorded in Chinese medicine that honey can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation. Therefore, drinking honey water regularly can improve and assist people with long-term constipation and duodenal ulcer. Even without constipation, drinking honey water every day can take good care of the intestines.
3, antibacterial effect. Scientific experiments have proved that honey has antibacterial effect, especially on gram-positive bacteria such as streptococcus, staphylococcus and diphtheria. So drinking honey water often can also avoid many diseases and inflammation.
4. Improve immunity. Honey is rich in protein and contains many enzymes and minerals, which is very helpful to enhance human resistance and immunity. Scientists have done animal experiments and improved the immunity of mice by injecting honey water into them.
5, prolong life. Because of the high nutritional value of honey, people who often eat honey live longer. Because some beekeepers are close to water and have more opportunities to eat honey, they seldom get sick, are healthy and live longer.
Matters needing attention in drinking honey
Don't cook honey with boiling water or high temperature.
Honey not only contains 65% to 80% glucose and fructose, but also is rich in enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Drink honey with warm water, and the water temperature should not exceed 60℃. If high-temperature boiling water rushes into honey, it will not only destroy its rich nutrients, but also lead to changes in its natural color, fragrance and taste.
Drinking honey water is about water temperature. Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica? Honey has five functions as medicine: clearing heat; Buzhong also; Wet and dry; Detoxification also; Relieve the pain. Born cold, it can clear away heat. Maturity is warm, so it can be made up. ? It can be seen that the cooler honey water has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening dryness and detoxifying, which is more suitable for people with hot constitution; Warm honey water (40-60 degrees) has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach and promoting digestion, which is more suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.
The daily intake of honey should not exceed 100ml.
Honey is good, but you can't drink too much! Honey can be ingested at most 100ml per day, but you can't eat it endlessly because you think honey is particularly healthy. Because glucose and fructose in honey are monosaccharides, they can be directly absorbed into the blood by the human body. If you eat a lot of honey at a time, your blood sugar can rise rapidly. Long-term excessive consumption of honey will lead to insufficient insulin secretion and easily lead to diabetes. Drink two cups of honey water every day, one cup with a spoonful of honey is enough, and a healthy diet depends on balance.
Drinking honey water on an empty stomach can easily cause gastric ulcer.
Honey belongs to sweets, sweets will increase the secretion of gastric acid, and hyperacidity is harmful to gastric mucosa. Drinking honey water on an empty stomach for a long time is easy to increase the acidity in the body. After a long time, you will have too much stomach acid and get gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer. So it is best not to drink honey water on an empty stomach. It is recommended to drink after meals.
You can't drink honey water immediately after meals.
Drinking honey water immediately after a meal will dilute the gastric juice, so that the food eaten will enter the small intestine before it can be fully digested, which is not conducive to food digestion. Moreover, food tends to swell when it meets water, which puts greater pressure on the stomach. Drinking honey after a long meal will increase the risk of gastrointestinal diseases.
You can't use metal cups as honey water.
Honey is acidic. When storing or brewing, it is best not to use metal containers to avoid chemical reactions. Because honey is a weakly acidic liquid, it is easy to oxidize when it comes into contact with metals, and free metal elements such as iron, lead, zinc and aluminum are precipitated. , make the color of honey black, and the nutrients are destroyed. If someone eats such honey, there will be symptoms of poisoning such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
It is best to use glass bottles or plastic bottles, cover tightly and put them in the shade.
Not suitable for eating with tofu.
Tofu is sweet, salty and cold, which can clear away heat and disperse blood. Eating with honey is easy to have diarrhea. At the same time, there are many enzymes, minerals, plant proteins and organic acids in honey. The harmful substances in tofu are not conducive to the biochemical reaction of human body.
Not suitable for eating with leeks.
Leek is rich in vitamin C, which is easily oxidized by copper and iron in honey and loses its function. In addition, honey can relieve constipation, and leek is rich in cellulose to induce diarrhea, which is easy to cause diarrhea.