Why You Should Eat Unpasteurized Honey
Eating unpasteurized honey (raw)
Sweet foods tell your body that it’s found easy-to-process energy. Unfortunately, most people go for processed sugars in foods and in snacks which may satisfy your sweet tooth but which are devoid of nutrition like vitamins, minerals, and important enzymes.
A candy bar tastes great but its processed sugar and fats are “empty calories” filling your stomach with non-nutritious and even toxic substances. In developed countries, a common problem is, believe it or not, malnutrition, even in overweight people.
But you can’t help wanting sweets. If you eliminate them, you’ll just crave them more and that will lead to binging. Instead, replace them with natural sweeteners like honey and sugar beets.
Raw honey
Raw honey is actually the concentrated nectar of flowers; bees collect it and then evaporate the water in it by fanning it with their wings. It also has amylase, an enzyme concentrated in flower pollen which helps predigest starchy foods like breads. In fact, if you spread unpasteurized honey on bread and let it sit, you’ll notice the texture of your bread changes dramatically – and in a tasty way. You’ll probably have to go to a health food store for it because in America almost all honey is pasteurized, which breaks down the amylase content.
You can substitute honey for sugar in desserts, coffees and teas, and many other items you normally sweeten with sugar. You can also get honey in wax tubes for a quick sweet treat.