The Benefits of Honey
Honey is known worldwide with it’s sweet taste and thick liquid, with yellow to brown color. As has been written in Holly Qur’an, honey is the medication for all illness, except for death. What are the benefits of honey for human’s health ?
Here are the five main concept of benefits of honey for our health :
- Honey as antioxidant source
- Honey as antibacterial matter
- Honey as energy source
- Honey to improve and increase immunity
- Honey contains a lot kinds of nutrients like amino acid, vitamins, and mineral that is sufficient for our body.
Honey and it’s substances :
| Substance | Level |
| Water | 17, 1% |
| Glucose | 35 % |
| Fructose | 41 % |
| Sucrose | 2 % |
| Fat | - |
| Protein & Mineral | 0, 50% with K >>, Zn, N, calcium, magnesium, iodine |
| Vitamin | Vitamin A, B1, B2 ; C >>, B |
| Enzyme | diastase, cataloes, peroxide and lipase |
| Antioxidant | ++ |
| Other substance | Malt acid, tartaric acid, citrus acid, lactate acid, and oxalate acid |
Steaming and Boiling Will Boost Antioxidant
Cooked vegetables not only results to a great taste and ease us to consume and digest them. The fact is, according to a report (the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, Cornell University) which was published last year, cooked vegetables such as carrots, spinach, mushrooms, etc, has had a higher antioxidant level that than the raw ones.
Carrotenoid in carrots, zucchini and broccoli seize the best by steaming. Cooked carrots have a higher beta-carotene. Beta-carotene plays an important contribution to human’s vision, reproduction, growing of bone and smoothing the human body’s immune system.
Beta-carotene is a part of Carrotenoid. Carotenoid it self is considered as an antioxidant substance. Carrotenoids is the one which contributes the color red, yellow and orange in fruits and vegetables.
