Honey Bioavailability

Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential

Rajesh Kumar Jaryal, Younis Ahmad Hajam, Shamsher S. Kanwar

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443341489
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and global quality testing. The book also explores how honey as a functional food can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade honey and it pharmacological importance, readers will gain insights into honey's bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey's effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases, and more. - Investigates the efficacy of honey in the management of a wide range of diseases and conditions - Explains the benefits of honey's key pleiotropic properties as antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and more - Highlights honey as a nutritional supplement to protect against certain metabolic diseases - Explores methods of sustainable honey production, harvesting, composition, and quality testing

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• Preface
• 1 Understanding honey bioavailability
• 2 Value addition in honey for enhancing its bioavailability
• 3 Pleiotropic properties and therapeutic potential of honey
• 4 Herbal honey, uses, and future perspectives
• 5 Sustainable apicultural practices for welfare of mankind
• 6 Honey as a natural dietary supplement
• 7 Nutritional importance of honey
• 8 Honey-based formulations in traditional medical systems
• 9 Therapeutic effect of honey for respiratory infections
• 10 Honey in management of viral diseases with special emphasis on COVID-19
• 11 Honey in diabetes management: facts and myths
• 12 Honey in reproductive health management
• 13 Skin rejuvenation and dermatitis management using honey
• 14 Medicinal evaluation of potential herbs for producing herbal honey
• 15 Therapeutic potential of honey in Alzheimer’s disease management
• 16 Antiaging potential of honey
• 17 Bee-yond medicine: honey’s bioactives as antioxidants
• 18 Antiproliferative effect of honey on tumorigenicity of different cancer types
• 19 Honey in eye disease management
• 20 Future perspectives of honey in the modern medicine system
• Index
• Back Cover