Honey is a nutritious natural health food that can improve gastrointestinal function, maintain skin and slow down the aging process.

But honey should not be mixed with boiling water or boiled at high temperature. Because it contains fructose, glucose, vitamins, trace elements, organic acids, nucleic acids, a variety of amino acids and help the human body to digest and absorb, and promote the metabolism of substances - enzymes. And high temperature precisely to destroy some of its active enzymes and vitamin C. In this way, it is no different from sugar water, health effects greatly reduced.

So, it is best to use 40 ℃ below the warm water or cool water to brew honey, specific to the person, according to the appropriate time. Generally speaking, the cold physique of people such as cold hands and feet, cold, pale, it is appropriate to use warm water to mix honey; usually fire people such as often feel the body hot, red face, red eyes, dry mouth, dry throat, it is appropriate to use cool boiled water to mix. In the fall and winter seasons, the weather is cold, it is appropriate to use warm water; in the summer season, cool water to mix honey, summer heat, or a very good cool health drink.

Drinking honey water, 1 to 1 1/2 hours before meals or 2 to 3 hours after meals is more appropriate. Excessive stomach acid, hypertrophic gastritis, gastric or duodenal ulcer patients, can drink 1 1/2 hours before meals, can inhibit the secretion of gastric acid, reduce the stimulation of the gastric mucosa, is conducive to the healing of the ulcer surface; and lack of gastric acid or atrophic gastritis patients, it is desirable to drink a cool honey water and eat immediately after. The neurasthenia can drink honey water before going to bed, because honey has a calm mind, improve the function of sleep.

It should be noted that: honey water and try not to cause diarrhea or cold food at the same time, such as tofu, leeks, etc., otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea; daily consumption of honey is best not more than 30 grams (1 to 3 tablespoons).

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Honey can improve the composition of the blood, promote the cardiovascular and vascular function, so it is often taken in cardiovascular patients are very good;

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Honey on the liver has a protective effect, can promote the regeneration of hepatocytes, on the formation of fatty liver has a certain inhibition;

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Consumption of honey can quickly replenish the strength, eliminate fatigue, strengthen the disease

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Honey also has a bactericidal effect, regular consumption of honey, not only on the teeth without hindrance, but also in the oral cavity to play the role of sterilization;

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Honey can treat moderate skin injuries, especially burns, the bacteria can not grow when the honey is used as a dressing for skin wounds;

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Insomniacs take 1 tablespoon of honey orally (within 1 cup of warm boiled water) before going to bed each day, which can help to get to dreamland as soon as possible;

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Honey is also laxative (this statement only applies to acacia honey, not date honey).

How to buy honey

Good honey flavor a taste unforgettable

Good honey has low water content and shiny, consumers to choose a better honey, the most effective way is to smell and taste, as long as you remember the taste of the really good honey, and then go to eat the bad honey, it will be easy to be able to distinguish.

Shopping for honey can not just cheap

General honey wholesale price of 40 yuan -60 yuan / kg, while the organic pure natural honey and primitive forest honey price of about 100 yuan / kg or so. Together with transportation costs, commodity packaging, and intermediate channels, a 500-gram bottle of natural honey sold in stores is usually not less than 30 yuan.

Don't choose honey with a lot of foam

Unripe honey has a high moisture content, and the yeast in it is prone to fermentation and gas production, which leads to the formation of a large number of bubbles and a special wine-sour flavor. Try not to choose honey that has a lot of foam before you open the cap. Mature honey has less moisture, can be stored at room temperature, and generally does not have fermentation gas production and acid production.

Earth honey may not be safe

The vast majority of flowers are non-toxic, but there are a few types of honey that contain toxic ingredients. If it happens that a small batch of honey is harvested in large quantities from the pollen of these plants, and the honey is an untreated "raw product", then it may be dangerous.

6 strokes to identify the real honey

Buying honey can be done by looking, smelling, pouring, pulling, grinding, tasting six intuitive and simple methods to identify the real.

One look at the gloss and viscosity, good honey color clear, bright as oil, shaking the bottle of honey trembling is very small, stop shaking after hanging on the wall of the bottle of honey will slowly flow down.

The second smell odor, real honey sweet, different nectar can be smelled after brewing the unique flower flavor. Each type of honey has a unique flavor, pure single-flower honey, more than the same smell with its flowers. If the fermentation deterioration can be smelled a fermentation acid or alcohol flavor; such as mixed with more sugar, caramel or starch, will lose the unique aroma of nectar.

Three inverted honey bottle, high quality honey due to the low water content of the texture viscous, if the sealed honey bottle inverted, it will be found sealed in the mouth of the bottle at the air is difficult to float bubbles.

Fourth, pull the "honey wire", with a small spoon or toothpick to stir up some of the honey outward stretching, the real honey can usually pull out a fine and transparent "honey wire", and silk broken will automatically retract and show the shape of the ball.

Five grinding particles, to buy milky white or yellowish natural "crystallized honey", you can pick out some of the crystals on the fingertip grinding, real honey crystalline particles fine, will be completely melted; while the fake honey crystalline particles hard, clumped together, fingertip grinding will be left behind after the particles are not easy to melt.

Six taste taste , real honey entrance sweet, part of the honey aftertaste slightly sour. Honey has a honey flavor, sugar has a sugar flavor. Pure honey sweet and slightly sour, soft and delicate taste. And fake honey honey flavor, aftertaste thin and short. Such as doped sucrose honey aftertaste short, taste syrupy flavor; doped urea honey sweet and salty; doped thickening agent honey has a gummy mouth and tongue feeling and irritating odor.

White paper can make fake honey appear

Buy back the honey, the public can also have two ways to identify at home.

One is to look at the method of penetration, pure honey drops on the white paper is not easy to seep out, while watered-down honey will gradually seep away.

The second is the refrigerated crystallization test: honey in the 4 to 14 degrees Celsius environment after a period of time will become solid, which is a physical phenomenon of honey, real honey and its crystalline transparency is poor, the crystallization of the level of the "fluffy", with a finger twisting no sense of grains of sand, crystals with chopsticks, an eye, it is very soft; fake honey! The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what is going on in your life and how it works.

Honey tips

1, acacia honey, date honey is more secure. Some fresh honey species on the market, such as goji berry honey, honeysuckle honey, aloe vera honey, may be blended. Because these crops are rarely grown on a large scale. In order to ensure quality, it is recommended to buy the popular ones such as acacia honey and jujube honey, and not to be overly superstitious about functional honey.

2, cool water rinse laxative, warm water nourishing. The water temperature of honey should not exceed 50 degrees Celsius, otherwise the nutrients are easily lost. With warm water (about 40 degrees Celsius), the effect of nourishment is good; with cool water (room temperature), laxative effect is more significant.

3, honey smeared on the bread, nutrition is not lost. The honey smeared on the bread or steamed bread to eat, can completely retain the nutrition of honey. In addition, breakfast added to the milk instead of sugar to flavor more healthy.

4, avoid contact with metal objects when storing. Honey is acidic, save do not use metal containers, and do not put a metal spoon in the honey bottle for a long time to avoid reactions.

5, honey is easy to crystallize irrelevant quality. Honey in the preservation process, sometimes there will be crystallization phenomenon. Honey crystallization is a normal phenomenon, has nothing to do with quality, and does not affect consumption. Generally honey is easy to crystallize below 13 degrees Celsius.