Honey is not something you can eat whenever you want! As we all know, honey is a relatively inexpensive nutritional supplement, affordable and suitable for all ages.
Honey is sweet, delicious, and nutritious. Regular consumption can lead to a rosy complexion, relieve fatigue, nourish yin and strengthen yang. Modern medicine has proven that oral consumption of honey can treat diseases of the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, and intestines. Externally, it can be used to treat burns, frostbite, and moisturize the skin.
However, it is currently believed that there are three types of people who should not drink honey.
1. Infants under one year of age should not eat honey:
Honey is nutritious and an excellent food for the general public. Many new mothers also add honey to their babies' complementary foods to adjust the taste and increase nutritional value. However, experts point out that infants under one year of age are not suitable for consuming honey.
2. Diabetics cannot take honey:
Per 100 grams of honey, the carbohydrates contain approximately 35 grams of glucose, 40 grams of fructose, about 2 grams of sucrose, and about 1 gram of dextrin.
Both glucose and fructose are monosaccharides, which can be directly absorbed into the bloodstream without digestion after entering the intestines, causing blood sugar to rise. Sucrose and dextrin are absorbed after slight hydrolysis. Therefore, honey has a particularly significant effect on raising blood sugar. From this perspective, diabetics cannot take honey.
3. Patients with cirrhosis cannot drink honey:
Generally speaking, patients with hepatitis B are very suitable for drinking honey because the monosaccharides provided by honey do not need to be decomposed and synthesized by the liver, which can reduce the burden on the liver. However, patients with cirrhosis cannot drink honey because it can worsen liver fibrosis.