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Did You Know Honey Is Good For Digestive Health? With Prebiotic Properties It Makes Sure You Have Good Bacteria In The Gut
New Delhi (India), March 13: There are many advantages of honey that you may not know. Since ancient times, honey has been used for many aspects of life, especially for medical purposes, as they are well-known for being the treatment for digestive ailments. Some specific kinds of honey have rich bioactive characteristics like anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Furthermore, there [...]
New Delhi (India), March 13: There are many advantages of honey that you may not know. Since ancient times, honey has been used for many aspects of life, especially for medical purposes, as they are well-known for being the treatment for digestive ailments. Some specific kinds of honey have rich bioactive characteristics like anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Furthermore, there are non-digestible carbohydrates present in honey in the form of oligosaccharides. In addition to the many benefits of honey, you would be pleased to know that there is a lot of evidence through various studies that honey has prebiotic characteristics.
In simple words, prebiotics are compounds or foods, such as non-digestible carbohydrates, that are used to promote certain changes that are favourable to the function and composition of the gut microbiota. The gut microbiota plays a key role in human health and well-being. It does so by synthesising vitamins, aiding digestion, safeguarding from enteropathogenic infections, and stimulating the immune system. Any kind of disruption to the symbiotic connection between the host and microbiota can lead to diseases ranging from mild to severe.
As soon as we start to chew our food, the digestion process starts right away with the saliva that breaks down the food, helps it with swallowing, and pushes the food down to the stomach. Enzymes and Peptic acids dilute and keep on breaking up the food. Then, the stomach acids and enzymes digest the protein and demolish the majority of bacteria that are present in the food. Things that are now left are delivered to the small intestine. In the small intestine, major food groups, fat, proteins, and carbohydrates, are broken into fatty acids, amino acids, and sugar, and they get absorbed into the bloodstream.
