Some interesting facts about honey.

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Did you know that almost all honey in America is pasteurized? Raw honey amylase, an enzyme concentrated in flower pollen which helps predigest starchy foods like breads. Honey gathered from your local area is reported to help build up the body’s immunities to local allergens. Some people use it cup for cup, others prefer 1/2 cup - 2/3 cup of honey per cup of white sugar. Reduce the amount of other liquids by 1/4 cup for every cup of honey used. Lower the oven temp about 25 degrees F to prevent over-browning and add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda for each cup of honey to your batter.n (Honey is naturally acidic and the baking soda tempers it.) Honey contains at least 15 nutrients whereas sugar has none. Honey is an aid to digestion when taken in the raw state due to its enzyme content while sugar interferes with digestion. Honey enters the bloodstream slowly, 2 calories per minute. Sugar enters quickly at 10 calories per minute, causing blood sugars to fluctuate rapidly and wildly. Sugar causes calcium leakage from bones, contributing to osteoporosis while honey does not. That's pretty straight-forward, isn't it? Cough Keeping Your Child Awake? Try a Dose of Buckwheat Honey but do not give to children under 2 years of age. This is better since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recommended that children under six should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. Honey can improve Athletic Performance I think we all know about honey healing wounds. Daily consumption of honey raises blood levels of protective antioxidant compounds in humans. Natural honey can reduced total cholesterol I have decide to use raw honey instead of sugar from now on. At least raw honey has some nutritional value where sugar has none.