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Blueberry honey has antibacterial activity
Canadian researchers have recently shown that blueberry and buckwheat honeys have higher antibacterial activity than regular honey.
Anti-Cancer Effects of Honey
A number of scientific studies have shown the benefits of honey. Below are abstracts and links to studies that will tell you more about the different health benefits that result from eating honey.
- J Agric Food Chem. 2002 Nov 6;50(23):6923-8.
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Antimutagenic effect of various honeys and sugars against Trp-p-1.
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Honey has been used since ancient times as a flavorful sweetener and for its therapeutic and medicinal effects. Consumers' demand for natural, healthy products has driven renewed interest in honey's health benefits. The commonly encountered food mutagen, Trp-p-1, has been demonstrated to be mutagenic in bacteria and carcinogenic in animals. Chemically, honey is quite complex. Honey is comprised primarily of sugars; however, it contains many other potentially biologically active components, such as antioxidants. Sugars have been reported to display both mutagenic and antimutagenic effects in different systems; antioxidants often display antimutagenic activity. Little information exists about potential antimutagenic effects of honey. Antimutagenicity of honeys from seven different floral sources against Trp-p-1 was tested via the Ames assay and compared to that of a sugar analogue and to individually tested simple sugars. All honeys exhibited significant inhibition of Trp-p-1 mutagenicity; most demonstrated a linear correlation between percentage inhibition and log transformed honey concentration from 10 microg/mL to 20 mg/mL. Each displayed significant degrees of inhibition of mutagenicity above concentrations of 1 mg/mL, with individual variations in degree of effectiveness. Buckwheat honey displayed the greatest inhibition at 1 mg/mL, with slightly less effectiveness at higher concentrations. A sugar analogue demonstrated a pattern of inhibition similar to that of the honeys, with enhanced antimutagenicity at concentrations greater than 1 mg/mL. Glucose and fructose were also similar to honeys and were more antimutagenic than maltose and sucrose.
PMID: 12405798 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Honey Heals Wounds
A number of studies and clinical trials have shown that honey is effective in reducing healing times in wounds and burns. The results of several of these studies have now been analyzed together to get a better overall picture of the usefulness of honey in healing burns and wounds. Andrew Jull and his team at the Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand, say that the studies show that topical application of honey could be more effective than conventional gauze dressings on moderate burns. Read more here.
Honey is a very effective antibiotic
Canadian Researchers from the University of Ottawa have examined the bacteriocidal effects of honey on biofilms formed by several species of bacteria involved in causing chronic rhinosinusitis, a disease that affects approximately 1 in 10 North Americans every year. The researchers found that honey was significantly better at killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa and MRSA (an antibiotic resistant bacterium) than conventional antibiotics. The authors conclude that topical treatment with honey may prove effective in fighting chronic rhinosinusitis. Read more.
Honey is a Functional Food
Honey is much more than just sweet! It is a concentrated and perfectly balanced energy source. The proportion of fructose and glucose carbohydrates offers optimum uptake by the body and easy metabolism. It even has performance advantages over the gels and drinks used by athletes because it contains oligosaccharides, protein, enzymes, organic acids, vitamins and minerals.
 
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