Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. Honey bees transform nectar into honey by a process of regurgitation and evaporation. They keep it as a primary food source in wax in the hive bee hive.
Honey gets sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, and has approximately the same relative sweetness with sugar. It has attractive chemical properties for baking, and a distinctive flavor. Most microorganisms do not grow in honey because of the low water activity of 0.6. However, honey sometimes contains active endospores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can be harmful to the baby, because endospores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in a baby's immature intestinal tract, leading to illness and even death.
The taste of honey vary based on the nectar source, and various types and grades of honey are available. It has also been used in traditional medicine to treat various diseases. The study of pollens and spores in raw honey (melissopalynology) can determine floral sources of honey bees carry an electrostatic charge which they draw other than pollen particles, which become incorporated into their honey (radioactive particles, dust and particulate pollution)
Throughout history, honey has been used by humans to treat various types of diseases, but only a few of this period antiseptic and antibacterial derived from honey can be explained chemically.
Osmotic effect
Honey has an osmotic effect of honey is basically a mixture of monosaccharides with a low water activity, most of the water molecules are constantly in touch with sugar and also microorganisms. This makes honey into a medium that is not good for breeding microorganisms.
Antiseptic.
Honey can deactivate free metal, which will not catalyze the formation of oxygen free radicals from hydrogen peroxide, leading to inflammation. Also, elements of the antioxidants in honey help clean up oxygen free radicals that exist .. At the time of the honey used (as applied to the wound) of hydrogen peroxide produced when exposed to body fluids to melt the honey. As a result, hydrogen peroxide is released slowly and be antiseptic., Benefits of honey is also effective to kill bacteria is used as an antiseptic on wounds. Honey is considered to be one of the first aid drugs that treat burns and cut a sharp object. In addition, honey is an anti-inflammatory agent that prevents inflammation and swelling
Treatment of patients with diabetes
Honey has also been shown to be used for the treatment of wounds in diabetic patients where the patient can not use antibiotics. Because the sweetness of honey and fructose form when introduced to the body will immediately converted into energy without the need for mengubahnya.Sehingga insulin can cure diabetes.
Anti bacteria
Acidity (pH) of honey ranged from 3.2 to 4.5. This acidic conditions may prevent the growth of bacteria.
metilglioksal
Activity was caused by antibiotics nonperoksida by metilglioksal (MGO) and synergy components that are not recognized.
Fixing colon
Antioxidants in honey have been tested on mice and were able to reduce the damage that occurs in the large intestine. This is in keeping with the traditional medication.
Insomnia
Difficulty sleeping can certainly worsen the health of the body. But it also can be overcome insomnia by eating honey. Because of its honey is able to reduce stress and make the body become more relaxed
Treating strep throat
Honey has been used for centuries and numerous clinical studies, honey has been shown to be effective in treating sore throat and cough. Honey can be consumed directly or mixed with lemon juice to get other healthy properties.
Other medical applications
Several studies have shown the use of honey may reduce body odor, swelling, and treat wounds. Honey has been proven to be an effective treatment for conjunctivitis in rats. Pasteurized honey is widely believed to alleviate allergies
Differences genuine and fake honey
The simple way to know the difference honey and fake honey, which has been fake honey producers can not fake it:
Knowing a good quality honey
- Having a shiny appearance, when the cap was first opened and when an outbreak is usually kept open, the honey will come out of the bottle in the form of froth
- Inside the bottle has a froth (bubbles) that muddy color and the color of the froth is not the same (rise), it looks fine froth is not a huge bubble
- When the bottle is reversed, honey in the bottle slowly moving towards the bottom (low water content)
- Pour honey in a dish that was filled with water, then toss in a circle, the honey will be transformed into a honeycomb-like shapes
- To find a good water content in newsprint pour honey, when the honey looks seeping into newsprint, meaning high quality water content of honey.
- Alternatively save the honey in Fresser, when honey freeze means it has a high moisture content
- When the water content of honey is low, then when in close proximity to the ants, the ants will not like it.
The first way
Mix honey with water in glass
Honey: color will appear more turbid, because honey has the pollen content of interest,
Fake Honey: turns brighter as it contains no pollen
The second way
Equipment: Spoon; candle
Ingredients: Honey
Put the honey in a spoon, turn on the candles, put honey on a spoon containing wax, heat
Pure Honey: honey when heated will turn into dark chocolate and froth coming out of the spoon, and after cooled honey texture is soft and can not be formed into threads when pulled
Fake honey: honey will frothing, but not out of the spoon, the spoon and the bubbles remain above cold honey after false if pulled by a stick to form wire-like and brittle
The third way
Equipment: a closed bottle
Ingredients: honey and pieces of fish meat
Put pieces of fish meat into bottles filled with honey, cover tightly for 2 weeks
Pure Honey: fish meat will shrink and become pale but no smell
Fake honey: meat-sized fish will remain, the color changed to black and malodorous
References
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madu
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