It is [treating cough caused by cold].
This therapeutic effect of honey is not a folk prescription, but has been verified by scientific research.
The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) has studied the relevant treatment methods and drugs for common cold-related cough (CACC) and has written a report in which honey is considered the only recommended drug for CACC.
The results of a control study in Israel in 2012 also showed that honey can indeed reduce the frequency and degree of cough in children.
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Based on these studies, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that children over 1 year old can drink 2-5 mL of honey to relieve cough if they cough due to the common cold.
Remember, it is to drink honey directly. It is useless to drink honey water.
However, it should be noted that babies younger than 1 year old cannot drink honey.
Because honey may contain botulinum and its spores, it will pose a fatal threat to the baby.
Seeing this, some people may want to say: “No, can’t drinking honey also moisten the bowels and relieve constipation?” ]
The truth is…
[Causing bowels] is actually [fructose intolerance]
Many people are used to having a cup of honey on an empty stomach in the morning to moisten their intestines. If they are constipated, they will also use honey as a lifeline.
In fact, the reason why some people [relieve constipation] after drinking honey is because their bodies [fructose intolerance].
Honey contains a large amount of fructose. For people with [fructose intolerance], the intestinal tract absorbs fructose very slowly. After drinking honey, fructose cannot be absorbed. In order to balance the osmotic pressure in the intestinal tract, water will enter the intestinal cavity, and the volume of stool will increase, making it easy to have diarrhea.
Therefore, in order to relieve constipation by honey, two conditions need to be met:
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Severe fructose intolerance, which is determined by genes;
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Drink a lot of honey, a small spoonful a day is not enough.
Therefore, for most people, a cup of honey has the same laxative effect as a cup of sugar water.
Well, the aura of honey relaxing bowels has also been disillusioned. What about its special nutritional value and magical effect? For example, [enhancing immunity], [beauty beauty], [regulating endocrine], etc.
Unfortunately, in fact…
Drinking honey does not preserve one’s health, but it is very fattening.
About 76% of honey is sugar, including glucose and fructose, and about 20% of water.
Apart from sugar and water, other nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, proteins, organic acids, etc., do have a little bit, but the combined content of all these ingredients is:
Less than 1%
If you drink honey just to absorb this 1% nutrient, you might as well eat something else.
Some people believe that honey contains enzymes. Honey does contain some enzymes, but after digestion by gastric acid, these enzymes will basically lose their activity and will not produce what’s magical effects.
There are also many people abroad who are attached to the unique nutrition of honey, so the European Food Safety Administration issued a document in 2010, which believed that the actual composition of honey could not achieve the effect of publicity and hoped that the public would not be too superstitious about honey.
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In short, from a nutritional point of view, honey is actually a food with a single ingredient and is not low in calories.
Honey can be regarded as syrup with special flavor. Like desserts and sweet drinks, honey needs to be controlled.
The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that the intake of free sugar per person per day should not exceed 50g, and it is best to control it within 25g.
If you like the taste of honey, just eat 1-2 spoons a day, don’t be greedy.
If the common cold causes a cough, honey is also a sweet choice.
However, in normal times, don’t drink honey water for the so-called [health care] effect, so that the body can consume too much sugar and calories.
After all, you may have vaguely realized that eating more honey may also achieve one effect, that is, getting fat.