Sweetening without sugar: Healthy honey makes it possible. In recent years, more and more people have been trying to eat more mindfully. If you choose natural alternatives, you will have to use less industrial sugar, which no longer offers you any valuable ingredients. Honey is ideal for this because it is a natural product and you don’t have to do without the sweetness you are used to. What can honey do? Here is the answer.
Healthy honey: a miracle cure?
Honey has a very long shelf life and offers you many healthy ingredients, some with antibacterial effects. By the way, this natural sweetener is not always the same. Depending on which plants the bees visit, it can have different colours and consistencies – and ultimately also a different taste. For those who count calories: One teaspoon has about 20 calories and replaces one tablespoon of sugar.
Store tightly closed up, under dry conditions and protected from light: These are the ideal conditions that allow honey to be stored for years without spoiling or losing its quality.
Can honey go bad? Normally not, but if there are foreign objects such as butter or bread crumbs in the jar, the honey will not spoil directly, but the butter will go rancid and the bread may become mouldy. So be sure you always use an extra spoon to get the delicious honey in the jar.
It can be regional.
You can get regionally produced honey almost everywhere in Germany, often directly from the beekeeper. Keep your eyes open: Regional honey is often available at weekly markets or local organic markets.
Honey is not a vegan product.
In general, honey is not considered vegan. This is because it is produced by animals – honey bees. Even though this reflects the natural behaviour of bees, the natural product is not vegan. Of course, this has nothing to do with healthy or unhealthy, but most vegans still avoid honey and beeswax.
Healthy honey: Sweetener in smoothies.
Smoothies aren’t just popular in summer. Depending on which fruits you are using – for example with the Slow Juicer MJ-L700 – honey is the perfect sweetener. Live out your creativity: Whether you want a healthy breakfast drink in the morning, a green kick of freshness in between or a delicious lemon sorbet with mint? There are no limits on what you can prepare.
