A precious food for health

For thousands of years honey was the only concentrated sugary food available to people. Throughout the history of humanity, honey has always been a rare food, unique for its excellent flavour and high nutritional value. These peculiarities have often connected honey to the religious sphere, where it was attributed with symbolic, magic and therapeutic virtues.
Tradition has always assigned honey some important properties, and today these properties find confirmation in modern medicine. Among honey's peculiarities the most interesting is the antibacterial activity which is due to honey's high sugar content and to its acidic pH. Other components of honey, such as polyphenols, strengthen its antibacterial action. This biological activity explains honey's use to this day as a home remedy against colds and throat-aches, as well as a remedy for