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Honey, especially robinia (also known as acacia honey, a honey from false acacia or black locust trees), clover, and unprocessed raw honey, may improve glycemic control and lipid levels when consumed within a healthy dietary pattern, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Toronto …

For millennia manuka honey has been shown to have wide ranging medicinal properties, which have more recently been identified for its broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity. In a new study, researchers at Aston University combined manuka honey and the drug amikacin in a lab-based nebulization formulation to treat the harmful …

Organic chemists at the University of Queensland have found that an unusual bioactive disaccharide called trehalulose, which is a feature of stingless bee honey, while not dominant in any other foods, is produced in the gut of stingless bees. Tetragonula carbonaria combs. Image credit: Tobias Smith. Stingless bees belong to …

Historical and ethnographic literature from across Africa suggests bee products, honey and larvae, had considerable importance both as a food source and in the making of honey-based drinks. To investigate this, a team of researchers from the University of Bristol and Goethe University analyzed lipid residues from 458 prehistoric pottery …

Honey is more effective and less harmful than usual care for improving symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections, particularly cough frequency and cough severity, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of previous studies, published in the journal BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. Honey is more effective than usual care alternatives …

Chemists Find Biologically Active Sugar in Honey of Stingless Bees An unusual bioactive disaccharide called trehalulose is a major component of stingless bee honeys from Malaysia, Australia and Brazil, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Queensland and the Universiti Putra Malaysia. Tetragonula carbonaria. Image …

A new study by researchers at the University of Adelaide and Lund University that appears online today in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that honey bees have much better vision than previously thought. A western honey bee (Apis mellifera) in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan. Image credit: Emran Kassim / CC BY …

Honey taken with hot water is good for health in a number of ways. Some of the hot honey water benefits are controlling body weight, detoxifying body, fights bacteria, keeping skin hydrated and speeds up metabolism. Having honey with hot water has many health benefits. Many people have a glass …

Australian manuka honey is at least as powerful against bacteria as the more commonly known New Zealand variety, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE. A researcher with manuka honey in the lab. Image credit: Vanessa Valenzuela Davie. “Honey has been used therapeutically by many cultures …

Honey is considered as the healthiest sweetener and one of the oldest natural remedies. But besides these, honey is also really good for your skin, hair and nails and we would like to get you familiar of how to use honey as part of your beauty routine. Below, you will …