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Is Raw Honey Good For You? 50 Benefits of Raw Honey

By Erin Smith Updated: December 31, 2019. First published: September 7, 2015. This post may contain affiliate links. 14 Comments  

Did you know that September is National Honey Month?! What better way to celebrate than to put together a big ol’ list of 50 benefits of raw honey!

Before I started eating a real food diet, I thought honey was just honey. I had no idea there was a difference between raw honey and commercial honey. I’ve learned since the amazing benefits of raw honey – in fact, I’d consider it a superfood.

Various containers of raw honey along with cartoon honeybees and honey dripping. The words "50 benefits of raw honey" are in the center of the image.

Is Raw Honey Good For You?

Raw honey has A LOT more nutrients, enzymes, and other goodies we’ll get to later. On the other hand, commercial honey is so processed that it’s basically flavored table sugar. Most honey that you buy at the store is processed through pasteurization and filtered. It is not raw honey obviously.

That is because it makes the honey easier to work with for pouring into those cutesy bear bottles and also makes the honey clearer. This processing breaks down the nutrients in the honey as well as kills the beneficial enzymes.

Don’t be fooled by the label though! The term “raw” is not regulated and therefore can be put on any form of honey the supplier sees fit.

The honey that I’m talking about is 100% unfiltered, unpasteurized, tasty raw honey. Raw honey consists of about 35-40 percent fructose and 30-35 percent dextrose along with 17-20 percent water and traces of pollen, wax, acids, proteins, enzymes, vitamins, minerals and pigments. As you can see raw honey is much more than just sugar!

If you can buy local, that is your best type of raw honey to buy (your local honey contains local pollen, a great way to develop resistance to allergies). If I didn’t have a local option I would get Nature Nature’s honey off Amazon. They won’t break the bank like some brands and you can do subscribe and save!

Just for kicks, here are some quick raw honey facts for your reading pleasure.

  • Bees are the only only insect that produces food eaten by man.
  • Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water. It’s the only food that contains “pinocembrin”, an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.
  • Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their sense of smell is so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from meters away.
  • A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
  • The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
  • A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey.
  • A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
  • The queen bee can live up to 5 years and its role is to fill the hive with eggs. She lays up to 2500 eggs per day.
  • Each honey bee colony has a unique odor for members’ identification.
  • If the bee disappeared from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

Now on to our list of 50 benefits of raw honey!

And just to let you know I have not tried all of these benefits of raw honey and no I am not a doctor. Don’t go off your meds just because you see something in an infographic. Talk to your medical professionals first and do your research!

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Erin and Cameron Smith, owners of Eat Real Stay Sane, teach people how to adopt a healthy lifestyle that includes eating real food, eliminating toxins, and overcoming chronic illness. The secret for them has been to cook homemade substitutes of foods they like - but with healthy ingredients. Get their free ebook, ā€œGuilty Pleasure Recipes Without the Guilt.ā€ You can follow them on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram

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Comments

  1. Venus says

    October 8, 2015 at 11:21 AM

    Totally didn’t know all this, thanks!

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  2. Dawn says

    July 21, 2016 at 4:02 PM

    How do you apply/ingest the honey for all 50 of these uses?

    Reply
  3. Linda Barry says

    August 17, 2017 at 4:38 PM

    I sell raw honey at our local fatrmers market in Fosters, Alabama. I would love to print out the ’50 Benefits of Raw Honey” to have at my honey stand. I love to educate my customers on way honey can be used other than as a great sweetner. Do you have a printable copy of this list?

    Reply
    • Jennifer says

      August 18, 2017 at 10:31 AM

      I can make a PDF for you out of it. Can you shoot me an email with the best email address to send that to please? My email is here: https://hybridrastamama.com/contact-me/

      Thanks so much!

      Reply
      • Kurtis R Gross says

        January 31, 2018 at 6:06 PM

        I am also interested in a printed copy of your 50 benefits of Raw Honey to use for an upcoming talk at a local library and also to use for the same reason as the other person mentioned at a farmers market. I would appreciate a PDF copy if you can send that to my email address: [email protected]
        Any charge for your PDF will be gladly remitted, your time and trouble is of some value, that is a beautiful article and eye catching, would really like to have a copy if possible. Thank you in advance.

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        • Jennifer says

          February 8, 2018 at 12:51 PM

          I sent you an email!

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          • RoseMary says

            June 18, 2019 at 11:05 AM

            [email protected]
            I would also like a copy for my family. I’m trying to convert to natural honey.

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            • Jennifer says

              June 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM

              I just sent you an email! šŸ™‚

              Reply
      • Caroline Ignacio says

        June 1, 2020 at 1:37 AM

        Hi I also want to have a printable version of this and to formally ask for your permission. I want to post it as well. Thanks!

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        • Jennifer says

          June 11, 2020 at 3:01 PM

          Hi Caroline! I will email you the PDF version. šŸ™‚

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          • Monica says

            December 18, 2022 at 5:29 PM

            I would also like a printable copy of the benefits of honey. My email address is
            [email protected]
            Thank you.

            Reply
  4. honeybasket says

    April 24, 2018 at 11:15 AM

    Amazing info, we sell online 100% Raw honey , we would like to Educate your findings to the public for a Greater benefit Jennifer, Erin. We highly appreciate if you could send us a pdf to our email id : [email protected] , Great Work!!!!

    Reply
  5. Merlie Yambao says

    October 22, 2020 at 10:18 PM

    Hi. I am from the Philippines and I sell local raw honey sourced from the mountains of Sierra Madre. May I share and use your 50 benefits of raw on my ads. i find them so informative and very helpful. Thank you so much.in advance. 😊

    Reply
    • Jennifer says

      October 29, 2020 at 9:23 AM

      Yes you sure may share! Thank you for asking!

      Reply

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