The Benefits of Honey
by Jingga Filed under: food facts
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 |
