As an ancient, naturally sweetened food, honey must be nutritious, otherwise it wouldn’t be called food, and technically, water is nutritious too. So perhaps you are asking, what is the “special” nutritional value of honey? Or is there a specific health care benefit to honey? Right? The main component of honey is sugar, including fructose, glucose and sucrose, the combination of which varies from pollen or bee to bee and accounts for over 80% of the weight of honey, which is why it is so sweet. The other thing is water and trace amounts of vitamins and minerals. To put it bluntly, honey is like a natural thick flavored syrup. When honey is mentioned in the market, it is associated with traditional medical claims such as moistening and laxative, coughing and lung relief, etc. However, so far, no modern scientific studies have confirmed that honey has these healing properties, but more commercial propaganda repeatedly mentions them. These effects cannot be said to be completely absent. Some cases have also shown that honey has effects such as relieving coughs and improving constipation, which can also be explained. On the one hand, there is a placebo effect, after all, people prefer certain types of food because of the flavor, psychologically more inclined to their own preference is reasonable; on the other hand, some types of honey, because of the high fructose content, and the fructose material is easy to absorb water, so when the cough appropriate to drink honey water, it can be in the throat of the mucous membrane coated with a “water retention layer “This is a great way to reduce the irritation of dry and cold air on the mucous membranes, and it also has a certain effect on coughing. Drinking honey water and taking in a lot of water at the same time, replenishes the body as a whole, and naturally makes the lungs, the main organ that evaporates water, more moist and comfortable, perhaps the feeling of “moistening the lungs”. In addition, because the intestinal tract has an upper limit to the absorption rate of fructose, if a large amount of high fructose honey is consumed at once, there is a surplus of non-absorbed fructose through the small intestine and into the colon, because of the high osmotic pressure, fermentation, gas and water production and other effects, making the intestinal water increase, to a certain extent, also has a laxative effect. Since honey still seems to be somewhat useful, isn’t it highly recommended? In fact, quite the opposite, but also because honey has such a high sugar content, it is just as unsuitable for eating more, too high in calories, single nutrition, high free sugar can be said to be the enemy of weight loss, or sweet addicted fat people more should stay away from honey. So what exactly are the circumstances under which you can eat it? In addition to the cough and laxative needs that may be mentioned earlier, there are also those who need to build muscle, those who are thin and weak after a serious illness, and athletes before and after a competition. For the general public, it is not a bad idea to use various flavors of honey as a flavoring instead of refined sugar, which has a single taste.