Traditional health care, such as monastic medicine in Europe, the life sciences in ancient India, and Chinese medicine, has always closely integrated food and medicine. Our ancestors knew about the health-promoting effects of honey, and it has become such an integral part of natural medicine that its medical use, along with other bee products, has created a separate field of natural medicine called bee therapy.

Honey has a very long history as a food, and has been popular with upper-class ladies since ancient times due to its ability to smooth skin and eliminate wrinkles.

The glucose and fructose in honey account for 85% to 95% of the total sugar content of honey, which can be absorbed directly from the digestive tract into the blood or tissue fluid, and then transported to the appropriate organs or tissues as the main source of energy for life activities, but also through the body of the appropriate biochemical reactions into fatty acids and amino acids to meet the physiological needs of the body. Therefore, honey is the best food for infants and young children with poor digestive function, the elderly and the infirm, as well as the most direct and effective source of energy for athletes, heavy manual laborers and high-intensity mental laborers.

Infants and young children under one year of age should not consume honey, because the intestinal flora of infants and young children is still unstable, and life-threatening Clostridium botulinum poisoning may occur in rare cases, and there are also very few infants and young children will have an allergic reaction. But for people of other ages, honey is very suitable, only diabetics should be taken with caution.