Category Archives: Honey

Honey as an Antibacterial

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Robert Barrington

Honey is an important food and medicine. Its culinary effects are well known, and relate largely to its sweet taste, something that results from its very high concentration of sugars. The medicinal effects of honey are more complex, and relate … Continue reading →

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Why Honey is Not The Same as Sugar

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Robert Barrington

Evidence shows that refined crystalline sugars, including sucrose and fructose are detrimental to the health. This relates to the way the fructose molecule is able to decrease the insulin sensitivity of cells, something that causes metabolic dysfunction, weight gain and … Continue reading →

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Is Honey Good for Bees?

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Robert Barrington

Honey has been shown to have a number of health effects in humans and animals. These effects relate partly to the phytochemicals within the honey that originates in the plants, and partly to the chemicals added by bees during the … Continue reading →

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Alternative Sources of Flavonoids

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Robert Barrington

Flavonoids are a group of phytochemicals that have some interesting health effects. Of particular note is the evidence that they act as antioxidants in humans and animals. Regular consumption of flavonoids may reduce the risk of developing certain Western lifestyle … Continue reading →

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How Does Honey Act As An Antibiotic?

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Robert Barrington

Honey has been shown to have a number of beneficial health effects. One health effect of honey that is fairly well established is its ability to kill bacteria. One explanation for this is that sugars, of which honey is a … Continue reading →

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A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Sugar Content of Honey

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Robert Barrington

Honey is a food with healing properties. This is paradoxical, because honey is nearly all sugar. The sugar content of honey varies depending on the bees that have produced it, but in general honey contains a mixture of sucrose, fructose … Continue reading →

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Honey Flavonoids as Anti-Inflammatories

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Robert Barrington

As well as being a food, honey has been used therapeutically in traditional forms of medicine throughout history. The main active principles in honey appear to be the same active principles found in the plants from which the bees derive … Continue reading →

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Tualang Honey as an Anxiety Treatment

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Robert Barrington

Tualang honey is a pure honey from Malaysia. The honey is made from a wide range of plants by Asian rock bees (Apis dorsata). In the process of creating their honey, the bees build a large honeycomb on branches of … Continue reading →

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Honey: Mood Elevating Sweetness?

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Robert Barrington

In nutrition, sugars are simple carbohydrate molecules including glucose, fructose and sucrose. Sucrose is chemically fructose and glucose bound together. High fructose corn syrup is a synthetic sugar consisting of molecules of glucose and fructose in free solution. Evidence suggests … Continue reading →

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Honey

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Robert Barrington

Phytochemistry: The exact phytochemical composition of honey varies depending on the flower that the bees have been visiting. Honey is a source of a number of sugars including glucose, fructose, and smaller amounts of sucrose. A number of trisaccharides such … Continue reading →

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