Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Health Benefits of Honey


Honey is not only a natural sweetener and pleasant addition to toast or bread, it has many health benefits. The two main sugars in honey are dextrose and levulose; sugars which do not need any further breaking down before they can be absorbed into the bloodstream. This means that honey can provide a quick energy boost for those who need it.
Honey contains a variety of minerals and vitamins, the exact types and amounts depend on which flowers the bees have collected pollen from. Better still it contains less than 2% sodium, making it sodium free according to Food and Drug Administration standards.

Australian honey can be bought in a variety of flavours depending on where the hives are situated. It could be near various crops that are flowing or underneath native trees such as Eucalypts and brush box.

Manuka honey is medicinal honey that is used as a salve to treat ulcers, burns and other skin problems. The specific properties of honey means that it withdraws water – so bacteria is actually dehydrated to death by the application of honey to an infection on the skin. Honey has actually been used to store skin grafts for as long as twelve weeks.

Royal jelly is a product that worker bees produce from the tops of their heads and feed to the bee larvae and the Queen bee. It contains a great many nourishing elements such as proteins and vitamins and is considered good for such things as arthritis, bronchial asthma, liver disease, general tiredness, regenerating the nervous system and a great many more.

Propolis is another bee product that, like bee pollen, is not as well known as royal jelly. It is actually a resin gathered by bees from leaves and bark and mixed with nectar, wax and pollen and used to seal the hive from outside contamination. Inside the hive the bees make honeycomb, a waxy substance formed into hexagonal hollows in which they store both the larvae and other products such as honey. For more details visit our website www.superbee.com.au.