Honey has a good health care function of "invigorating spleen and benefiting qi in spring, relieving summer heat and detoxifying in summer, moistening dryness and smoothing intestines in autumn and relieving cough in winter", and it is a good nourishing product with good quality and low price. But some people like to make honey with hot water, which is not right.

Honey not only contains a lot of glucose, formic acid, protein, vitamins and inorganic salts, but also contains enzymes. These enzymes are active, and their activity will gradually lose at high temperature, producing a large number of hydroxyl formaldehyde sugars, which will destroy protein, vitamin C, formic acid and other nutrients in honey.

Therefore, honey should be washed with warm water below 60℃ to ensure the efficacy.

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Taboos for drinking honey water:

1, excessive consumption can easily lead to diabetes.

Normal adults should eat about 20-25 grams of honey every day. Because glucose and fructose in honey are monosaccharides.

2, drinking honey water on an empty stomach is easy to cause gastric ulcer.

Honey is a sweet food, which can increase the secretion of gastric acid, which is harmful to gastric mucosa. Drinking honey water on an empty stomach for a long time is easy to increase the acidity in the body, leading to gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer.

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