Always pay attention to health and wellness. Just now I met a problem: in the morning, we were encouraged to drink a glass of honey water on an empty stomach, and my honey just ran out. I have some crystal sugar here, and I'm thinking: What's the difference between honey water and crystal sugar water? Further development: What's the difference between honey water and sugar water?
1. Honey water is a kind of sugar water with no extra function;
Honey water is amazing, but it has many functions, and it is simply a cure for all diseases.
Maybe we are not so extreme, but deep down, we are all biased towards one. Most people tend to cure all diseases; Some senior intellectuals in the scientific field think that honey is syrup.
My title is anti-intelligence, that is, against these senior intellectuals. Lilac Garden and Zhihu, two heavyweight platforms, have professional arguments against honey. Both platforms have very rigorous articles written by professional researchers. I think there is no problem with their rigor, and they are excellent from foundation to conclusion.
So why did I write this anti-intellectual article? Because I want to tell them that there are other possibilities; By the way, I will also give it to Xiaobai Science, and one day I can communicate with this big brother. Communicate with you objectively ~
Composition determines function, and function determines use. Let's compare the composition of the two first.
1. The main component of sucrose and rock sugar is sucrose.
2. The main components of honey are glucose and fructose, and there may be a small amount of trace elements and pollen grains in honey.
The comparison function is divided after the comparison is completed.
1. Natural Science
From the point of view of natural science, the main components of honey and sugar are sugar, which provides us with energy. The only difference is that honey contains some substances produced in nectar and substances secreted by bees themselves. These substances will have some extra functions, and these functions will have some benefits for our bodies. But the benefits are not clear.
According to some extreme scientists, the function of honey is not much different from that of sugar.
2. Traditional medicine
From the perspective of traditional medicine, it is more talk. Chinese medicine believes that the effects of rock sugar and sucrose will be a little different, because the medicinal properties of rock sugar are slightly cooler. I am not sure about this, I think it may be true, because the crystal form of drugs will affect the curative effect of drugs (references need to be improved). And honey is the essence of heaven and earth, and it has many, many benefits. There are herbal records in all previous dynasties.
Efficacy and use are inseparable, and only when there is efficacy can there be use; Sometimes we all talk about efficacy together and use it together, for example, in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine.
1. Natural Science
According to the thinking of extreme scientists: honey is syrup, so its main function is to provide energy, and its use is syrup and sweetener.
An article by Dr. Lilac (Dr. Lilac, 20 18) said that the only medical function of honey is to relieve cough, and cited several research supports; At the same time, it shows that people who are intolerant of fructose can take it in large quantities to achieve the effect of relaxing bowels.
2. Chinese medicine
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, honey has many functions and wide uses. In addition to health care and treatment, it is also used to process drugs and so on.
(to be perfected ~)
16, Dr. Clove wrote an article denying the health care function of honey, mainly for two reasons: the content of honey except sugar and water is less than 1%, and honey is too fake (Yunwuxinxin, 20 16).
18, Dr. Clove wrote again denying honey health care (Dr. Clove, 20 18). This article is objective and has sufficient arguments. The article first recognized the cough relieving function of honey, and then began to deny the health care function of honey. The article not only emphasizes the lack of nutritional elements, but also cites the contents of the European Food Safety Agency document to prove its argument.
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Based on the available data, the Committee draws the following conclusions:
Honey, a claimed food, has not been completely confirmed.
The causal relationship between honey intake and honey's claimed health care function has not yet been determined.
Some answers are very professional and as rigorous as Dr. Lilac's tweets. There is a 6K+ like answer, which is recommended to everyone:
How to treat clove doctor said that honey has no special nutritional value and then suggested that drinking honey in moderation when coughing can relieve symptoms? -Yan Ling's answer. -Zhihu
/question/20207368/answer/25 172396
The whole article is very professional and scientific, and the conclusion is clear: honey is a kind of sugar and it is very dangerous.
For Yan Ling's answer, praise and discussion are also fierce, such as this:
I am a Scientologist. I think Chinese medicine is unscientific, but I still support Chinese medicine.
I quite agree with the conclusion of Dr. Lilac and Mr. Zhihu: honey is syrup+trace other active substances; I also believe the argument they cited-whether honey has health care function is uncertain. But another way of saying uncertainty is that we don't know whether it exists yet.
But if you're not sure there is, can you deny it? There are really not many other active substances in honey, and the existing active substances have no good functions. But as a scientist, can you say that it must have no health care function? Are you sure there is no synergy and unobservable between these trace substances?
Are there still few phenomena of life that we can't explain? Don't we understand the laws of nature? Just like Chinese medicine, I think it is unscientific, but it is really useful. Many drugs, according to modern parlance, are protein or starch, but they have some special functions.
Anti-intelligence: I admit that Chinese medicine has dross, and many of them are really useless; It is also possible that honey has no health care function.
Honey is essentially sugar, with some nectar components, pollen and bee secretions. These ingredients determine the main positioning of honey syrup. However, because honey contains many trace elements, vitamins and some other bioactive substances, it may have some health care effects on us. As for what this is, we don't know yet.
At present, the health care effect is not based on scientific experiments, but on the application of some people. At least there is a placebo effect. Because of the existence of a small amount of active substances, honey water must have better efficacy than sugar water; But we don't know how effective it is, and we don't know whether it is worth the extra money you pay. This also depends on your financial conditions.
Sometimes faith is more important than real existence! If you believe that honey can be healthy, please stick to it; If you doubt, please forgive me.
Let us be more rational! ! ! Don't be credulous of the excessive publicity of merchants, and don't be too superstitious about some authoritative organizations. Simple nature is not necessarily good; Experts are not necessarily true, and they are not necessarily right.
Time will give us the answer ~
Remarks: This article is for academic exchange and knowledge dissemination, and some of the cited materials have been deleted. Some contents need to be updated ~
References:
Dr. clove. (20 18). Don't eat indiscriminately, honey has only one magical function. Retrieved from /column/ 1 1784.
Clouds are unintentional. (20 16). Honey, royal jelly, propolis ... reveal the mystery of magical bee products. Retrieved from /column/5026.