關於蜂蜜的英語美文閱讀

　　蜂蜜是蜜蜂採集花朵的蜜汁或動植物有生部分的分泌物如蚜蟲,經蜜蜂利用特殊物質加工、釀製、混合並儲存於蜂巢中的一種甜味物質,是一種營養豐富的天然滋補品。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　蜂蜜-歷史悠久的保鮮劑

　　Honey has been around for a very long time. Cave paintings in Spain from over ten thousand years ago show people harvesting honey. Today honey is mostly used for its distinctive flavor, but for baking it has another advantage as well: baked goods made with honey take longer to get stale.

　　Honey helps baked goods stay fresh longer because, unlike common table sugar蔗糖;食糖, honey is made of two so-called “simple” sugars: glucose葡萄糖 and fructose果糖. Table sugar also has glucose and fructose, but they’re chemically bonded together in a double sugar【生物化學】雙糖 called “sucrose蔗糖.” Having two single sugars instead of one double sugar means that ounce-for-ounce honey contains more sugar molecules, which is why honey is also a little sweeter than table sugar.

　　But the reason honey helps keep baked goods fresh has to do with the ability of sugar to attract and hold onto water molecules. All these sugars are “hygroscopic,” that is they attract and hold onto water, each sugar molecule holding several water molecules. By holding onto water, the sugar helps keep moisture from escaping from the food and so keeps it tasting fresher longer.

　　But when two sugars, like fructose and glucose, bond to each other, they lose some of their ability to bond to water molecules. And that means your bread or cake will lose water faster. Honey’s attraction to water is also why candy made from honey tends to get stickier than candy made from sucrose, or table sugar.

　　Commercial bakeries use chemicals like Polysorbate聚山梨醇酯 to keep baked goods fresh, but with honey you can do it naturally. Incidentally, if you’re worried that honey will make your cake too heavy, try beating the honey until it’s frothy before adding the other ingredients.

　　篇二

　　關於蜂蜜水的7大益處

　　Maybe you only know the benefits of a warm glass of water in the morning or maybe you have only heard about how honey is great for your skin, but have you heard what wonders combining warm water and honey can do for you overall? Read on and let me tell you the wonders of honey and warm water.

　　也許你只知道每天早上一杯溫開水的益處，或者也許你只聽說過蜂蜜對你的面板有好處，但是你聽說過把蜂蜜和溫開水放在一起的好處嗎?看看這些吧，讓我來告訴你溫蜂蜜水的好處吧。

　　1. Watch Your Weight Melt Away

　　觀察你的體重變化

　　Yes, drinking water and honey can help you lose weight. Get the plaguing thoughts about the sugar aspect of honey out of your head, as that is one of its benefits. I know, I know, it sounds crazy and too good to be true, but it isn’t. The sugar in honey is a natural sugar or read: good for you, which provides a healthy source of calories. Not only that, it can help to ward off any sugary sweet beverage cravings you may have. By cutting back on the amount of pop you drink, your calorie intake drops and with that so do the pounds.

　　是的，喝蜂蜜水有助於減體重。不要擔心它含糖，因為這就是它的一大優點。我知道，我知道，這聽起來有些奇怪，太好了可能就不是真的。但是真的是這樣。蜂蜜裡所含的糖是一種天然的糖或者是對你有益的糖，這種糖是一種健康熱量的來源。不僅如此，它還能幫助我們抵制對甜食的慾望。減少汽水的攝入量，飲料給你帶來的熱量就會降低，體重也會有所下降。

　　2. Gives Your Immune System A Helping Hand

　　對免疫系統有幫助

　　Have I stressed just how good honey is for you yet? Honey has amazing bacteria-killing properties. If you go for raw, organic honey it is full of enzymes, vitamins and minerals that lead the front line against protecting against bacteria. One study presented, UK found that Manuka honey may even help reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Honey is also an antioxidant, which helps fight those bad free radicals that reek havoc in our body and on our skin.

　　剛剛我有強調蜂蜜對你有多好嗎?蜂蜜具有驚人的殺菌特性。要是蜂蜜是天然的，有機的，蜂蜜裡面就富含抗菌的酶、維生素、礦物質。一項研究表明，英國發現麥盧卡蜂蜜甚至可能幫助逆轉細菌對抗生素的耐藥性。蜂蜜也能抗氧化，能幫助對抗這些在我們身體、面板患處壞死的自由基。

　　3. Reduce Your Allergies

　　減少過敏現象

　　And no, I’m not suggesting to take a Claritin or something like that with the glass of honey water. By using raw, local honey you help to acclimate your body to the pollens of your area. In turn, this helps to reduce your susceptibility to environmental allergies. If you really think about what bees do in the grand scheme of things, this makes perfect sense. Now I know the warm water isn’t necessarily crucial to helping with allergies, but being hydrated is never a bad thing.

　　不，我不建議你用克敏能，也不建議你用瓶裝的蜂蜜水。使用天然的蜂蜜，本地蜂蜜能幫你適應當地的花粉。反過來也可以說，這也能幫你減少對環境的過敏反應。要是你認為蜜蜂在這方面做了一件大事，那確實是這樣的。對抗過敏，溫水並不是非常重要。但是用水也不見得就是件壞事。

　　4. Soothe That Sore Throat And Cut That Cough

　　滋潤喉嚨，治咳嗽

　　According to the Mayo Clinic, hot water with honey can help reduce the soreness and irritation of a sore throat. Honey helps to coat the throat while the warm water soothes. This soothing and coating action also helps to reduce your cough, as coughing is sometimes caused by irritation from a sore throat.

　　據梅奧診所表示，溫蜂蜜水能幫助減少喉嚨痛，減輕喉嚨刺疼感。喝下溫蜂蜜水時，蜂蜜能幫助保護喉嚨。這種清潤保護也能幫助減少咳嗽，因為有時候咳嗽是由喉嚨痠痛刺激引起的。

　　5. Detox, Detox, Detox!

　　排毒!

　　Honey and warm water helps to flush out the toxins from your body. By helping you to get regular, it helps you to regularly rid your body of toxins that can build up and cause disease. Adding lemon to the mix increases the benefits, as lemons help to increase urination, dispelling toxins more frequently and keeping your urinary tract healthy. Lemon contains citric acid, which helps to maximize enzyme function and in turn stimulate the liver and help with detoxification.

　　溫蜂蜜水幫助清掃身體裡的毒素。讓你保持健康，定期的幫你應對身體毒素引發的疾病。蜂蜜水裡加入檸檬也很有用，因為檸檬能利尿，頻繁的排出毒素，保持泌尿系統的健康。檸檬裡含有檸檬酸，它能最大化的發揮酶的功效，同樣的也能刺激肝臟，幫助排毒。

　　6. Gassy? It Helps With That.

　　脹氣?也有幫助.

　　Feeling a little uncomfortable and gassy? Drinking a glass of warm water and honey will help! Honey helps to neutralize gas.

　　感覺有一點不舒服，還有一點脹氣?溫蜂蜜水很有用。蜂蜜有助於順氣。

　　7. Increase Your Health

　　改善健康

　　Not only will drinking warm water and honey increase your hydration plus everything else I’ve listed, it also helps to increase the levels of “good” cholesterol in your body and reduce cardiovascular strain.

　　喝溫蜂蜜水不僅能保證身體的水分，還能讓身體裡面“有益”的膽固醇增加，減少心血管應變。

　　篇三

　　It's commonly accepted that honey is better for us, but is that really the case? The short answer is because it is made of 55 per cent fructose fruit sugar, eating honey is little more beneficial for our bodies than eating granulated sugar. And here's why.

　　大家普遍認為蜂蜜對我們的身體更有益。但事實確實如此嗎?簡單來說，由於蜂蜜中含有55%的果糖，所以吃蜂蜜一點也不比吃白砂糖健康到哪裡去。

　　Refined table sugar sucrose is processed in our bodies by insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Honey is about 55 per cent fructose, a fruit sugar that's processed by the liver. Despite the chemical difference, our bodies still react to honey in much same way as it reacts to refined sugar - with a blood-sugar spike.

　　在我們體內的蔗糖是由胰腺分泌的胰島素來分解的。而蜂蜜中包含的55%的果糖，是通過我們的肝臟來分解的。雖然在體內發生的化學變化不同，但人體對蜂蜜和對糖分的反應是一樣的，都會造成血糖迅速升高。

　　This encourages the pancreas to produce insulin, which leads the body to store fat and gain weight. When eaten to excess, products containing fructose contribute to obesity, heart problems and liver disease, just like products with granulated sugar. Other research has shown fructose drains minerals from your body.

　　這會刺激胰腺分泌胰島素，進而導致身體儲備更多脂肪和體重上升。如果過量食用包含果糖的製品，那麼就和食用含砂糖的製品一樣，會導致肥胖、心臟病、肝病等問題。還有研究顯示果糖還會消耗體內的礦物質。 'There's an idea that sugar is a pantomime villain and honey is the pantomime hero,' says nutritional therapist Ian Marber. 'It's not accurate. Loading honey onto a bowl of porridge or breakfast cereal isn't much better for our bodies than layering that cereal up with granulated sugar.

　　“有人認為糖分就像是壞蛋，而蜂蜜像是大英雄。”營養治療師伊恩·馬伯說：“這種觀點是不正確的。早上喝粥或麥片時加入蜂蜜和加白砂糖是一樣不健康的。”

　　Honey is also high in calories - more than table sugar. A teaspoon of commercial natural honey contains about 22 calories, a teaspoon of sugar around 16 calories. Many people who swapped honey for sugar found they liberally poured it into yoghurts, herbal teas and the like imagining honey to be superior to other sugars. 'When people think something is low fat, they eat more,' says Ian Marber.

　　另外，蜂蜜的卡路里含量也高於蔗糖。同樣一小茶匙的量，蜂蜜含有22卡路里，而蔗糖含有16卡路里。許多用蜂蜜來替代蔗糖的人會隨意地、不計量地在酸奶、涼茶中加入蜂蜜，認為蜂蜜比蔗糖健康得多。伊恩說：“當人們認為某種食物脂肪含量低就會大量食用。”

　　'Companies use the word 'honey' instead of saying something is 'sweet' because they know it has an implied health benefit,' says Ian Marber.

　　伊恩還說：“很多生產商都會用‘蜂蜜’這個詞來代替‘甜’這個詞，因為他們覺得這樣會顯得更健康。” While raw, unrefined varieties of honey - from farms and health food stores - do contain trace vitamins and minerals; niacin, riboflavin, thiamine and vitamin B6, they only make up about two per cent of honey's total content.

　　實際上，養蜂場裡的和健康食品店中的未經加工的生蜂蜜確實含有多種維生素和礦物質，如煙酸、核黃素、維生素B1、B6等，但它們的總量也只佔到2%。

　　Many big-brand honeys and other 'natural' sweeteners in supermarkets have been processed - heated and filtered - to rid them of pollen and naturally-occurring bacteria in raw, varieties. But it also removes these vitamins and minerals.

　　而那些超市裡售賣的大品牌蜂蜜以及其他號稱“天然”甜味劑的蜂蜜是經過加工的蜂蜜，它們被加熱或被過濾，這樣花粉和細菌被除掉了，但同時同時除掉的還有蜂蜜裡的維他命和礦物質。

　　Dr Mica Engel, aesthetic doctor at London's Waterhouse Young Clinic says glucose, fructose and carbs in honey will cause collagen damage - just like sugar. 'Benefits from the few extra vitamins some honey contains won't help to repair damage done to your collagen.'

　　倫敦沃特豪斯診所的美學醫生邁卡·恩格爾說，蜂蜜中所含的葡萄糖、果糖以及碳水化合物等會和蔗糖一樣損害面板的膠原蛋白。“蜂蜜中所含有的那點微量維生素無法幫你修復損害掉的膠原蛋白。”

　　Added sugar refined white sugar or honey has no nutritional benefit. The NHS says added sugar can safely make up 10 per cent of a daily calorie intake.

　　另外，新增糖無論是精製白砂糖還是蜂蜜都沒有任何營養價值。英國國民保健服務稱新增糖在日常卡路里增加值中佔10%。

　　But earlier this year I spoke to cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, who is also science director of Action On Sugar, a body campaigning to reduce levels of sugar in our foods, who said the World Health Organisation recommends limiting all added sugars including honey to six teaspoons a day.

　　今年年初在同心髒病專家、“對糖分採取行動”一個旨在減少我們日常食品糖分攝入量的組織的科學顧問阿西姆·馬爾霍特拉博士交談的時候，他說道，世界衛生組織建議每天攝入新增糖包括蜂蜜的量最好不要超過6茶匙30克。

　　'Contrary to what the food industry wants you to believe, the body doesn't need any carbohydrate from added sugar,' he said.

　　“和食品生產商所希望的不同，我們的身體其實不需要從新增糖中獲取任何糖分。”