What kind of honey do you eat?
Taking honey regularly in autumn can not only help a lot of prevention and treatment, but also prevent the injury of autumn dryness to the human body and play a role in moistening and nourishing the lungs.
Honey is rich in nutrition, and its main components are glucose and fructose, with a content of 70%. Fructose and glucose are directly absorbed and utilized by the human body without digestion, which is an ideal tonic. Honey has the functions of strengthening physique, improving intelligence, increasing and improving myocardium, and can prolong life if taken for a long time.
Drinking more honey in autumn is actually very good, and honey is mild and suitable for most people. If you have cough symptoms, you'd better take it with warm water such as loquat honey and wild chrysanthemum honey. Honey is best eaten on an empty stomach in the morning and evening. You can also add some honey to the tremella lily lotus seed soup, which is a good medicine for nourishing skin and calming the nerves.
What honey do you eat in autumn? Many, including Sophora japonica honey, osmanthus honey, jujube honey and so on. And honey made from different flowers has certain differences in efficacy. When choosing, you can choose the most suitable one according to your own needs. So how do we choose the honey that suits us best?
1. Love fire and eat acacia honey or Vitex negundo honey. People who fall in love with fire are prone to dry mouth and get angry in autumn. It is best to choose acacia honey or Vitex negundo honey, because it has a very good effect of moistening lung and drying.
2, the body is weak to eat jujube honey. Jujube nectar is dark in color and high in fructose, especially rich in fructose, which has the effect of calming the nerves and enriching blood. It is an ideal food for middle-aged and elderly women, children and the weak.
3, beauty choose osmanthus honey. Sweet-scented osmanthus honey, known as "Jin Furong", is the first choice for Amy, because it has good moisturizing and beauty effects.
4. Cough and eat milk vetch honey. Milk vetch honey has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving eyesight and moistening dryness, and has a certain auxiliary effect on cough and sore throat.
5, insomnia eat linden honey. Linden honey has the effects of nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening dryness, and has a certain calming effect, which can relieve insomnia.
6, regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation to eat motherwort honey. Motherwort honey has the effect of regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation, and is an ideal adjuvant therapy for people with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease and nephropathy.
7. choose dangshen honey. Codonopsis pilosula honey has the effect of benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, and has an auxiliary effect on deficiency of both qi and blood and anemia, and is suitable for people with physical deficiency and anemia.
8. Jinsheng Lishui eats lychee honey. Litchi honey is collected from the nectar of litchi stamens, which is fragrant and sweet, with a slight sour taste of litchi fruit. When bees brew litchi honey, because of the addition of various unique ingredients of bees, it does not have the heat of litchi, but has the effects of promoting fluid production, benefiting blood and regulating qi, which is a unique honey species in Lingnan.
Choosing honey includes
High-quality honey is light in color, high in concentration, pure in taste, sweet and delicious, white under scattered light, uniform and high in transparency. Inferior honey has dark color, poor transparency and sour taste under scattered light.
High-quality honey has high viscosity and high concentration. When chopsticks touch its liquid surface, it feels elastic. When you pick it up, the honey on the chopstick head is thin and long, and it keeps flowing. Once it is broken, it immediately shrinks into a ditch. Take a small amount of honey and dilute it with water, then let it stand. After five minutes, if there are suspended lumps or precipitates, it means that there are impurities, while pure honey does not precipitate.
Honey is also preserved. Because honey is slightly acidic and contains a certain amount of water, it is easy to undergo chemical changes when it comes into contact with metals, so that free heavy metals appear in honey and are harmful to human health. It is best to use enamel ceramics or glassware, sealed with a lid, and stored in a low-temperature ventilated place.
As a reminder, to keep the nutrients of honey from being destroyed, it is best not to eat it directly without heating. It can be directly coated on bread or used for cold drinks or boiled with warm water.