Honey is pretty good at covering bitter tastes of medications. This capability is due to levulose which constitutes 50% of the sugar found in honey. Levulose is one of the strongest sweeteners among common sugars. For this reason, honey has been mixed with medications to cover their unpleasant tastes since thousands of years.Honey was also found effective as a “wound dressing” (Morse, 2009). This is because bacteria cannot live in honey due to the action of glucose oxidase (described above), nor can bacteria pass through honey into the wound. Honey has been used by Egyptian physicians as a component of more than half of Egyptian medicine and cures 3000 years B.C.
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