Drinking honey every day is a good habit, and drinking it regularly and quantitatively is very good for the body. The way of eating honey is also particular, and eating it right can be beneficial to the body. In this regard, some people ask how to eat honey? What are the taboos for eating honey? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.
Commonly used honey consumption methods
1. Mix with fruit juice
Take freshly squeezed fruit juice (commercially available), add honey and water, and put it in the refrigerator. It is an excellent refreshing drink in summer. It has the effects of relieving summer heat, anti-inflammatory and refreshing, which is incomparable to carbonated drinks.
2. Eat with cold vegetables
Due to the unique viscosity and sweetness of honey, it can be used instead of sugar to make cold dishes such as cold tomatoes. When strawberries are on the market, honey can also be used instead of sugar to mix strawberries.
3. Drink honey in water
2 tablespoons of honey, add half a cup of warm water, stir well, and take.
4. Make honey tea
(1) Hawthorn honey tea
Ingredients: 20 grams of hawthorn slices, 20 grams of honey.
Production method: Cut fresh hawthorn into thin slices, dry or dry them, put them in a casserole, add water and cook for 30 minutes, filter and extract the juice, add honey, and mix well.
Efficacy: Eliminate vegetable stasis, activate blood, and lower blood pressure. Indicating various types of hypertension, it is especially suitable for patients with coronary heart disease and hyperlipidemia. It is recommended to take it in the morning and evening.
(2), fresh honey black tea
Raw materials: 60 grams of honey, some black tea.
Production method: 60 grams of honey is made into strong black tea to drink.
Uses: Influenza or common cold.
(3) Garlic honey tea
Ingredients: appropriate amount of honey and garlic.
Preparation method: Peel, wash, grind the garlic, add the same amount of honey, and mix well; take 2 times a day, 1 tablespoon of garlic honey each time, rinse with warm water.
Effect: Influenza.
The taboo of eating honey
1. Honey cannot be brewed with boiling water
Honey is rich in enzymes, vitamins, and minerals. If it is brewed with boiling water, it will not only fail to maintain its natural color, aroma, and taste but will also destroy its nutrients to varying degrees. Therefore, it is best to drink it with warm water that does not exceed 35°C.
2. Honey cannot be eaten with tofu
Tofu has the effect of clearing heat and dissipating blood. Eating it with honey can easily cause diarrhea. Moreover, honey contains a variety of enzymes, and tofu contains a variety of minerals, plant proteins, organic acids, and other substances, which can easily damage the body when eaten together.
3. Honey cannot be eaten with green onions
The nutritional composition of honey is relatively complex. After eating onion honey together, organic acids and enzymes in honey meet sulfur-containing amino acids in onions, etc., which will cause harmful biochemical reactions, or produce toxic substances, which stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and cause diarrhea.
4. Avoid contact with metal objects when storing
Honey is an acidic food, so when storing it, do not use metal containers, otherwise, some chemical reactions will occur. Moreover, it is normal for honey to crystallize, not a quality issue.
After eating, the container should be kept airtight. Honey is highly hygroscopic and odor-absorbing. It is necessary to avoid the entry of moisture and odors, which will cause the honey to ferment and deteriorate. Storage temperature should not be too high, so as not to destroy nutrients.
5. Note that three kinds of people should not eat honey
(1) Babies under one-year-old should not eat honey
As a mother, you have to be careful, never give honey to babies under one year old. Honey is susceptible to botulism contamination during brewing, transportation, and storage.
Due to the weak resistance of infants, after ingesting botulinum toxin, it will multiply in the intestines and produce toxins, and the detoxification function of the liver is poor, so it is easy to cause botulinum toxin food poisoning.
Babies will experience slow paralysis after eating honey poisoning, and their cries will become smaller, they will not have the strength to breastfeed, and they will have difficulty breathing.
(2), diabetics can not take honey
Each hectogram of carbohydrates in honey contains about 35 grams of glucose, about 40 grams of fructose, about 2 grams of sucrose, and about 1 gram of dextrin.
Glucose and fructose are both monosaccharides. After entering the intestinal tract, they can be directly absorbed into the blood without being digested, which increases blood sugar. Sucrose and dextrin can be absorbed after a little hydrolysis. Therefore, the blood sugar-raising effect of honey is particularly obvious. From this point of view, diabetics cannot take honey.
(3) Patients with liver cirrhosis cannot drink honey
Generally speaking, hepatitis B patients are very suitable to drink honey, because the monosaccharides provided by honey do not need to be decomposed and synthesized by the liver, which can reduce the burden on the liver, but patients with liver cirrhosis cannot drink honey because it will aggravate liver fibrosis.
