Vitamins and minerals food sources » honey http://sources.vitaminsdeficiency.org Fresh, natural, unprocessed foods is best sources of vitamins and minerals Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:42:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Honey as source of antioxidants http://sources.vitaminsdeficiency.org/honey-as-source-of-antioxidants/ http://sources.vitaminsdeficiency.org/honey-as-source-of-antioxidants/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:35:48 +0000 admin http://sources.vitaminsdeficiency.org/?p=155 honeyHoney is good source of antioxidants. Most of all antioxidant contains in dark the honey.
For the most health benefits, the honey should be unfiltered, unheated, and unprocessed.Despite the claims of some health advocates, the vitamin and mineral content of honey is minimal, and any derived benefits negligible. Honey also has the highest sugar content of all the natural sweeteners, and even has more sugar content than refined sugar.
In fact, it can rot teeth faster than table sugar, possibly because of its stickiness and the fact that its vitamin and mineral content, however small, may provide a favorable environment for bacteria.
Compounding the problem is the fact that manufacturers may feed bees sugar water or add sugar syrup to the honey to increase the sweetness.
Heating honey to high temperatures destroys much of the protein and nutritional content.

Honey could also contain carcinogens that bees have inadvertently picked up from flowers sprayed with pesticides, or traces of penicillin and sulfite, which could pose a threat to susceptible individuals.
Honey should never be fed to infants under one year of age, as it contains spores of Clostridium botulinum, the organism that causes botulism; while adults and older children have stomach acid that can kill the bacterium, infants do not, leaving them susceptible to sickness or even death.
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