Soy products and honey are both nutritious foods, but these two foods should not be eaten together.
Tofu can clear heat and dispel blood, and eliminate turbid qi from the large intestine. Honey is sweet, cool, and slippery. When consumed together, they can easily cause diarrhea. At the same time, honey contains a variety of enzymes, and tofu contains various minerals, plant proteins, and organic acids. Mixing the two can easily produce biochemical reactions that are not beneficial to the human body. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat honey after eating tofu, and even less so to eat them together.
The protein content of soy milk is higher than that of milk, while honey contains a small amount of organic acids. When mixed, the organic acids combine with the protein to cause denaturation and precipitation, which cannot be absorbed by the human body.
In addition, it is best not to add brown sugar to soy milk, because brown sugar contains various organic acids that can easily combine with the proteases in soy milk, causing the protein to denature and precipitate, making it difficult to be absorbed. White sugar does not have this effect.
Legumes contain inhibitors, saponins, and lectins, all of which are substances that are not good for the human body. The best way to deal with them is to cook the soy milk thoroughly. People who consume soy milk long-term should not forget to supplement with the trace element zinc.
Honey is rich in nutrition, containing carbohydrates, niacin, and minerals such as potassium, magnesium, and iron. It is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and can tonify the spleen and stomach, nourish deficiency and moisten dryness, and nourish yin and moisten the lungs.
When consuming honey, please note the following three points:
Honey is best taken with warm water, not with freshly boiled water, to avoid the destruction of its nutritional components. Honey should not be consumed with cooling foods such as watermelon or loofah at the same time, as this may cause diarrhea. It is advisable to consume honey 1-2 hours before a meal or 2 hours after a meal. For people with excessive stomach acid or peptic ulcers, drinking honey water about 2 hours before a meal can not only inhibit gastric acid secretion but also lower the level of gastric acid, which is beneficial to the healing of the ulcer surface.