Healthy Honey
One of my preferred foods is honey. I adore it on just about any kind of food there is. You can put honey on pancakes,ham cookies,sausage,potatoes, almost any kind of meat or vegetable, and it goes great on ice cream. You can also sweeten your coffee or tea with honey and do away with unhealthy sugar. Real honey comes directly from the hive and not from your grocery store. The kind of honey you buy off the shelf has been pasteurized and that damages the enzymes that make bees and honey such a beneficial food. Its best to buy honey from a neighborhood bee keeper or online if you want the genuine thing. Honey and sugar are both sweet, but what is the difference? They both include glucose and fructose, but that is where the likeness ends. When sugar gets processed, the enzymes and vitamins from the cane are destroyed. But raw honey is a natural sweetener and it keeps all the vitamins in tact. It is obvious which is the better choice!
Have you heard that all honey is anti-bacterial? Any time you get a burn or a scrape just spread on a thin film of honey and overlook the other store bought treatments. Apart from burns and scrapes, honey is good for pleasant an upset stomach, it can treat an allergy, and it can overcome an ulcer. Honey has a lot of anti-oxidants and some kinds are full of phenols and flavonoids that are a better cancer fighter than vitamin E.
Honey comes in different variants directly associated to what kind of flower the honeybees pollinate. So don't think for second that what you buy at the super market is what all honey tastes like. In my area alone we have clover,gall berry,wildflower,orange blossom,blueberry, and the sweetest of them all, Tupelo. The majority of what you see in stores is clover honey and although it may be the most preferred for majority of the people, its by no means the only kid in town.
Lots of people buy to build their own beehives and build honeybees and therefore have a free supply of honey, not only do you have free honey, but you get free beeswax which is great for making candles. There are plenty of websites out there that deal with bee keeping and have plans for beehives as well as books on how its all done.