Every morning perhaps you eat or drink honey as your menu for breakfast. Honey already proved has benefits since years ago. It is not only as source of energy but also other benefits. Honey can be drunk anytime you want. You can use it as complements for breakfast, jam, or even you can drink it before go to bed at night. Drinking a spoonful natural honey before you sleep will increase the performance of brain. It is caused by the fructose which can give backup-energy for liver and work in brain at night. It is not wonder that honey is believed as sources of energy for athlete in ancient Greek during Olympiad.
Honey has carbohydrate 82,3% higher than others animal products like milk, eggs, meat, cheese and butter. Each 100 gram of pure honey consists of 294 calorie. Then, each 1000 gram or 1 kilograms honey has as same as calorie with 50 eggs or 5,675 liter milk or 1680 gram meat. The contents of glucose and fructose in honey can supply the glycogen in liver. It also can increase the immune in body. Honey also can has anti-bacteria effect not only internally but also externally, so that can quicken the recovery of body. It has function as natural anti-virus to heal influenza.
Research in United States said that benefits of a spoonful of honey can be recommended medicine for influenza. Previously, the research in Australia also stated that honey can recover infection and injury, and also support the good bacteria in intestines effectively.
Beside high contents of glucose (fructose 41%, glucose 35%, sucrose 1,9%), it also has the other contents like Vitamin A, B1. B2 and mineral (calcium, iron, magnesium and etc). Honey also has anti-biotic and various organic acid like malate acid, tartrate, etc. That’s why we are recommended to consume 2 teaspoonful of honey three times per day to keep the health of gastric. Just be healthy by consuming honey regularly.