What are the Benefits of Honey?

Honey has many benefits to the body of either: child, teenagers and also adults. Consumption of honey is a habit that started many years ago. During the times when there was no structured beehive, there are communities who used to practice gathering. This activity used to take place in interior areas of the forest.

Traditional methods of honey harvesting, honey processing was the major ones preferred by the communities at that time. The old methods of honey extraction and processing became difficult to use during 20^th century especially in Kenya and most of the African countries. It is due to difficulty of the use of such methods for the ladies and aged honey lovers; it became difficult to follow such route.

Researchers in apicultural industry brought forth new hive designs that could be seated near to the grounds. They also invented modern methods of honey extraction and processing. With these new inventions in beekeeping sector, it has been made easy to start such investments for anyone who is interested. Read also  https://www.beecareafrica.co.ke/how-to-start-beekeeping-project-in-kenya/

Beekeeping is now considered as a lucrative form of investment. This is because it has been seen that the business can breakeven very easily compared to any other agricultural venture.

BENEFITS OF HONEY CONSUMPTION

The most common benefits of honey that I have personally experienced are:

1. Reduces Acne
2. Adds flavour to snacks and other foods
3. Helps in cutting weight
4. Improves metabolic processes
5. Preservative
6. Making soap
7. Cough and sneezing relieve

Honey Reduces Acne

Honey is used by ladies to apply on their faces. Application of honey on your face for 20 minutes every day clears away all black spots on your face. This makes most women to possess baby faces. Application of honey on the oily skin is helpful as it dry’s such skins and gives the skin a better look at all the time.

Honey adds flavour to food and snacks

Honey is used in food industry is used in adding flavour to foods. It improves taste in roasted beef, boiled rice and sausages. Honey used on morning slices, buns, mixed dates and also with groundnuts to boost stamina for men.

Honey used to reduce cholesterol

Consumption of raw pure honey helps in cutting of weight naturally. Cholesterol in your body makes you look old and shabby. Once you get started with consuming pure honey then with just light body exercises, your body becomes fit, back to your structure.

Honey also helps your body to improve its metabolic processes thus making digestion and absorption of food happen effectively and smooth.

Honey used as a preservative

Honey has been used as meat preservative during the pre and post-colonial periods. Apart from salted meat, stake of a cow, goat or even sheep, was dipped into a bucket containing honey.  Fresh meat stored in honey jars and buckets has proved to stay fresh for a very longer period of time without the meat going bad.

Some goldsmith also uses honey as preservative for their jewels especially in areas with high humidity.

Honey used in Industrial processes

Honey is used in different industries in making soaps, perfumes, medicines, additives and lip bums. Soap made from honey has various benefits to your skin, especially removing black spots and small skin pimples.

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Other Uses of Honey

Honey is used by people who do not have a good habit of consuming the recommended water quantities. The honey is added in a bottle with water thus giving the water a particular flavour. This flavour encourages the user to drink more water.

Honey has a medicinal factor and that is why it is recommended for small children who develop common cold or flu. In some hospitals patients are washed their wounds with pure honey. Mixture of ginger, lemon and honey is great concord that fights colds in your body.

Why Makueni honey is the best organic honey.

Makueni honey is considered one of the best bee products from lower eastern of Kenya. This honey is purely organic as most of the areas are covered by indigenous trees and the beekeepers in Makueni County cannot afford to feed the bees. It is due to these reasons then that as a you look for the best quality honey in Kenya, you ought to check for Makueni honey. https://www.beecareafrica.co.ke/product/makueni-honey/

The Size of the Kenyan  Beekeeping Industry

Kenyan Population: 56 M

GDP:  107 billion USD

Rural population: 72%
Population below Poverty line: 35.2%

Unemployment rate: 7.2%
Bee Keeping uptake: 36.7%

The above statistics relating to beekeeping in Kenya can be improved by taking a bold step to venture in keeping of bees.

In Kenya bee farming has been practiced in informal ways for many years. This has contributed to the unregularlisation of the industry thus lacking enough support from the government. There is only 25% honey tapped potential in the industry of beekeeping for the honey production in Kenya, this amounts to an estimate of 130,ooo Metric tonnes.

Majorly in Kenya the land is 80% composed of arid and semi arid areas(ASAL) which are characterised of high potential in honey productivity and other apicultural products. It is just recently when the Non-Asal regions have started in cooperating in bee farming by predominantly use of Langstroth beehive and Kenya Top Bar hives.