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Should the elderly eat more medlar honey for health preservation?
Although medlar honey is also called honey, its main nutrients are fructose and glucose, and the sucrose content of disaccharide is only about 4%. Monosaccharide is directly absorbed without conversion after entering the gastrointestinal tract of human body, and will not accumulate and cause fat accumulation.

Diabetes and hypertension have always been the health killers that plague the majority of middle-aged and elderly friends. In order to avoid the aggravation of diabetes, many elderly people who like sweets have to force themselves to stop eating sweets. Sucrose is an indispensable carbohydrate and sweetener in our life, and its consumption is large. However, for the human body, eating too much sucrose is not worth the loss, because although sucrose can generate heat and solve urgent needs, middle-aged and elderly people will suffer from gastrointestinal diseases such as abdominal distension and qi stagnation due to the weakening of gastrointestinal function, which is not conducive to digestion, affects the normal absorption of appetite and nutrition, and forms chronic dyspepsia. Eating too much sucrose can lead to obesity, atherosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and high salt and fat.