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Open Access 01-12-2021 | Review

Honey and its nutritional and anti-inflammatory value

Authors: Yazan Ranneh, Abdah Md Akim, Hasiah Ab. Hamid, Huzwah Khazaai, Abdulmannan Fadel, Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria, Mohammed Albujja, Mohd Fadzelly Abu Bakar

Published in: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies | Issue 1/2021

Abstract

Inflammation is the main key role in developing chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, arthritis, and neurodegenerative diseases which possess a huge challenge for treatment. With massively compelling evidence of the role played by nutritional modulation in preventing inflammation-related diseases, there is a growing interest into the search for natural functional foods with therapeutic and preventive actions. Honey, a nutritional healthy product, is produced mainly by two types of bees: honeybee and stingless bee. Since both types of honey possess distinctive phenolic and flavonoid compounds, there is recently an intensive interest in their biological and clinical actions against inflammation-mediated chronic diseases. This review shed the light specifically on the bioavailability and bioaccessibility of honey polyphenols and highlight their roles in targeting inflammatory pathways in gastrointestinal tract disorders, edema, cancer, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases and gut microbiota.

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Title: Honey and its nutritional and anti-inflammatory value
Authors: Yazan Ranneh
Abdah Md Akim
Hasiah Ab. Hamid
Huzwah Khazaai
Abdulmannan Fadel
Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria
Mohammed Albujja
Mohd Fadzelly Abu Bakar
Publication date: 01-12-2021
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies / Issue 1/2021
Electronic ISSN: 2662-7671
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-03170-5

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