Eating honey has the following advantages over eating sugar:
1. People who often eat sugar will damage their teeth, while people who eat honey will not only damage their teeth, but also sterilize their mouths. Honey contains an enzyme, which can produce an oxidized water-a main component that inhibits bacterial activities that damage teeth and cause dental caries.
Honey is easier to digest and absorb than sucrose. The main components of honey are glucose, fructose and monosaccharide, which is convenient for human body to absorb directly. Honey also contains a large number of enzymes from the digestive tract of bees, such as amylase and invertase, which can help the human body digest and absorb nutrients in honey. Therefore, the elderly and infants with weak digestive ability, as well as those who have just recovered from illness, can get rich nutrition by eating honey. In addition, honey has a high calorie, which can quickly relieve and eliminate fatigue for people with high physical labor intensity or strenuous exercise.
3. Fructose will not convert excess sugar into fat and accumulate in the body, leading to obesity. This is the beauty of honey, and it is also the gospel of women who like sweets and are afraid of getting fat.
4. Honey contains protein, which can not only increase human nutrition, but also become an important source of baby food when the cheese in baby's milk can't be digested and absorbed. Therefore, replacing sucrose with honey is extremely beneficial to the digestion and nutrition of artificially breastfed babies.
Although the mineral content in honey is very small, it is indispensable for human body, especially for infants: because the iron content in human milk and milk is very small, eating honey can supplement it.