Honey

Honey is sticky and sweet fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers.

Honey is sweeter than table sugar and has the chemical characteristics of interest for roasting. Honey has a different flavor than sugar and other sweeteners. honey bees are included in the family "apidae" and the most widely cultivated in Indonesia and around the world is kind of bee Apis Mallifera. Generally natural honey made from nectar sweet liquid that is contained in an ordinary flower crown absorbed by bees or wasps, which are then collected and stored in the nest to be processed into material for their main food supply, the rest of the inhabitants of the nest.

Types of Honey
The types of honey bees or wasps are produced by quite a lot. Even more so when viewed from the pollen or nectar are eaten or carried by bees. Among other things known as: Honey hibiscus, Calluna, linden, calliandra and more. When viewed from the source, type of honey, among others:
a. Honey Flora
Flora or honey flower honey is pure honey produced from the nectar of flowers. Honey is generally composed of two types:
1). Monoflora honey produced from nectar sourced only one type of flower.
2). Porliflora honey or honey produced from nectar sourced produced more than one kind of flower or flowers of various kinds.
b. Honey Dew (honey dew) is produced by honey bees from secretions of certain insects are often found in herbs or flower petals.
c. Ekstraflora honey is honey produced from non-floral nectar or do not come from flowers.
Content of Honey
According to research by experts, natural honey contains many minerals and seven types of vitamin B complex, vitamin C also there, dextrin, plant pigments, aminoacid (amino acid), proteins, and esters (which serves to form the enzyme), and aromatic components of the substance substances or elements that serve as fragrances. Some of the mineral content in honey is a sulfur (S), calcium (Ca), Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Iron (Fe), phosphorus (P), Chlorine (Cl), Potassium (K), Magnesium (Mg) , Iodine (I), Zinc (Zn), silicon (Si), sodium (Na), Molybdenum (Mo) and aluminum (Al). Mineral deposits that exist in natural honey, depending on the inhaled pollen. Usefulness of calcium and phosphorus in honey is very useful for the growth of bones and teeth

Honey also has Lysozyn compounds which have antibacterial power, including inhibine compounds, which can work as a disinfectant. That's what causes natural honey can be used as a wound healer.
the knowledge of honey contains seven enzymes that do not ternilaikan also values ​​and benefits. These enzymes are:
a. The enzyme invertase, which is known to turn into dextrose and levulose sukrose.
b. Diastase enzyme known to convert starch manjadi maltose.
c. The enzyme catalase, which can change peroksidan liquid hydrogen (hydrogen peroksidan illustrates a simplified form).
d. Inulase enzyme that can convert insulin to levulose.
e. Enzymes of aromatic substances, among others: terpenes, aldehydes, esters.
f. Enzymes from other substances such as: Mannitol, Dulcitol.
g. Maltose enzymes that can help generate energy or energy that can rarely occur.
Benefits of Honey
The benefits of honey on human health and oral health, among others:
a. Benefits of honey as a cure stomach or digestive tract diseases. Manganese content of substances contained in honey is very effective to help the process of digestion and absorption of food. It also can reduce the degree of acidity (pH), as well as help prevent bleeding in the stomach or intestines
b. Benefits of honey as an antibiotic drug. Honey has anti-bacterial power is good for treating wounds and old, because honey has bacteria-killing power in a broad spectrum or range. In addition, in the honey contained a substance that serves as a barrier (a barrier or deterrent), so bacteria can not penetrate into the wound.
c. Honey is very effective for preventing tooth decay. Honey is not only able to stop the bacteria in the mouth that causes thickening of the layer of plaque, but also can reduce acid levels in the mouth.
d. Honey can be used as sedatives and anesthetics that are safe for baby teeth during growth.
e. Honey has sedaktif effects that can lead to sleep soundly. In the body, such as honey, sugar metabolized sinotonin lead levels (a compound that can relieve brain activity) in the brain that induces increased desire for relaxation and sleep.
Characteristically Antibacterial Honey
Anti-bacterial ingredient contained in honey useful functions to assist the body in the address of bacteria (germs). That's because there are compounds of hydrogen in the honey and fitonitrisi peroksidan. Lysozine Honey also contains compounds that have antibacterial power, including inhibine compounds that can work as a disinfectant.
How it works as an anti-bacterial honey is honey water so that the bacteria bind to a lack of water to multiply. Water activity of honey inhibits bacterial growth, and the pH ranging from 3.2 to 4.5 honey is low enough to inhibit bacterial growth in general. The main antibacterial activity in honey is related to the hydrogen peroxide enzymatically formed. Levels of hydrogen peroxide produced is antibacterial, but not harm the body's tissues. Gargling clear honey (+ 15%) cure stomatitis