Honey and its therapeutic virtues, propolis or royal jelly boost immunity. What is it really ? What are the health benefits of honey and in what quantity?
Naturally sweet food, is honey good for your health?
At a time when the excess sugar in the Western diet is being blamed, what to think of honey, mainly composed of glucose and fructose? Does its sugar content still make it our health ally? The answer lies in the natural origin of honey: an unprocessed food, composed of simple sugars (fructose and glucose) and easily transformed into energy by the body.
Sweetening with honey: the benefits
Sugar is an essential contribution to our diet, which the consumption of honey can help to regulate and control. The strong sweetening power of honey (1.5 x more than refined sugar) allows you to adjust the doses and thus limit the number of calories in your snacks and pastries. As part of a pleasure consumption, the powerful taste of honey allows a reasoned consumption: a small quantity is enough to treat oneself with succulent toasts.
In coffee or tea, as in your pies and cakes, replacing refined white sugar with honey is a healthier way of sweetening and combining its delicious sweetness with many other advantages: in addition to fructose and glucose, honey indeed carries with it vitamins, minerals, amino acids and anti-oxidants such as flavonoids. Composed from the nectar of flowers, it conveys the renowned benefits of many plant species. It is thus recognized:
• A valuable probiotic effect for the intestinal microflora
• An antioxidant action thanks to flavonoids and their role in the neutralization of free radicals
• Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties when applied to the skin
The different kinds of honey and their virtues
The benefits of honey are linked to the 100% natural origin of the product and therefore vary according to the type of honey, that is to say the type of plants foraged by the bees.
Monofloral honeys
A monofloral honey designates a honey whose nectar comes from at least 80% of a variety of flowers in particular. Among the most common are acacia honey, from the flowers of the locust tree, renowned for its low GI and its benefits for transit.
Lavender honey is known to be effective against sore throats (cough, sore throat), flu and bronchitis. It is also rich in calcium and used in skin application for its antiseptic properties (bites, light burns).
Linden honey is traditionally used to fight anxiety and sleep disorders.
Thyme honey is renowned for its great antiseptic power thanks to its high content of phenols. It is also recognized for its healing power.
Eucalyptus honey is known to be a pulmonary antiseptic, intestinal and urinary tract. It is also used to relieve rheumatic pain.
All-flower honeys
We meet, under the names of flower honey and forest honey, honeys from different flowers and tree flowers, without one variety dominating more than 80%.
A mixture of nectars and honeydews that vary from region to region, forest honey is particularly rich in trace elements (zinc, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, etc.).
The benefits of flower honey of course vary from one honey to another: they are renowned for their content of vitamins B and C and for their antiseptic properties.
Maison Peltier offers you conventional organic monofloral and polyfloral honeys that are 100% natural and unpasteurized, liquid and creamy: treasures with multiple virtues for the pleasure of the palate and the benefits of the body.