Honey is a delicious drink that is not rejected by everyone. Perhaps because it is sweet and delicious, it is very popular among people. Because everyone loves the taste of honey, there are also many promotional companies touting the efficacy of honey in order to further sell honey. For example, it is claimed that honey can clear away heat and detoxify, beautify skin and remove freckles, relieve constipation and increase appetite, and even help lose weight and treat gout, etc. It is even close to being able to cure all diseases. With the popularity of honey, there are still many unscrupulous vendors making their own honey. These honeys are not naturally extracted honey, but are just a slurry made from sucrose, fructose, etc. However, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from real honey. Even experts It is not necessarily possible to tell the difference absolutely, so even if there are some beneficial ingredients in honey, the market covered by fake honey has made the quality of honey lower and lower.

If it is inferior honey boiled with sucrose, it contains a lot of sugar, a very small amount of minerals, and some of the active ingredients in honey. Although the taste is not much different from honey and the taste is also very sweet, they There are not many other benefits besides providing energy. If the local honey is genuine, it is actually not as good as we imagined. Honey is rich in sugar. There are 75.6g of carbohydrates in 100g, accounting for about 70%. Most of them are fructose, a small part of sucrose, and the rest. 30% of it contains a small amount of protein, minerals, vitamins, enzymes and other ingredients. Generally speaking, the biggest advantage of honey is that it is rich in sugar, which can help quickly replenish physical strength and relieve weakness. It is especially suitable for people who are hungry, need energy and have low blood sugar.

In traditional medicine, honey can moisten the lungs and throat. Honey is often used to relieve coughs, sore throats, and reconcile medicines. If we feel tired, have a red, swollen throat, or have a cough every day, Symptoms, you can drink some honey to moisten your throat. Honey is also added to some medicines, such as the emergency syrups and cough syrups that we often take when we cough. However, these throat soothing effects do not mean that they can completely relieve coughs or reduce inflammation. They can only It has the effect of making the throat more comfortable.

Honey contains high sugar content and strong adhesion. Like some plant polysaccharides, it can adhere to our mucous membranes to prevent mucous membranes from being irritated. People with gastric ulcers and weak gastrointestinal mucosa can drink some honey appropriately, which can relieve the irritation caused by food and protect the mucosa. Honey contains a small amount of organic acid components, which can promote gastric acid secretion, improve appetite and digestion speed; honey tastes good, and its sweetness can stimulate the human brain's reward mechanism, promote dopamine secretion, and make us feel better. Drinking some honey appropriately can soothe the liver and detoxify. Depression makes us more energetic. Studies have proven that the active ingredients in honey can help accelerate wound healing. Applying honey to the affected area can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. It is very useful for some patients in the recovery period or recovering from serious illness.

However, as for honey to treat constipation or even gout, there is really no theory of removing freckles and whitening. Relieving constipation may be a diarrhea reaction caused by glucose intolerance. As for removing freckles, honey’s active substances are exaggerated and secretly replaced. concept. And if you eat too much honey and consume too much fructose, it will increase the synthesis of purine substrates, causing an increase in uric acid and inducing gout, which has nothing to do with the treatment of gout. It is still a good choice to drink some honey water appropriately, but it is not recommended to drink too much, otherwise it will cause excessive sugar intake or other adverse effects. In addition, the efficacy of honey should be treated rationally and do not be too mythical.