What would make you consider buying honey more often?

So, we all know that honey is sweet and produced by honey bees and derived from the nectar of flowers.  But, did you know some people using honey as a healing agent, or to help with seasonal allergies?  According to the United States National Honey Board there are tremendous benefits to honey that most of us are not aware of.

Do you eat honey?  How do you use it?  Please tell us what you think.  We want to know!

A portion of all honey sales supports a worthy cause (19.8%)

Learning that honey is all natural and has no additives or preservatives (24.9%)

Honey can be used as a sweetener in place of sugar or unnatural sweeteners, e.g. aspartame (29.6%)

There are thousands of recipes that call for honey as an ingredient (28.5%)

Knowing more about the home uses, e.g., honey for coughs, beauty benefits (55.3%)

What would make you consider buying honey more often?
  • agaphmou By agaphmou
    on Jul 27, 2009  

    honey also has antibacterial properties

  • spidermonkey511 By spidermonkey511
    on Jul 27, 2009  

    we love Honey and buy it all the time ,but we buy it from locals.

  • msfriendly By msfriendly
    on Jul 27, 2009  

    They say that if you have allergies, take a spoonful of honey ( harvested locally) each day to ease your symptoms. This is supposed to build up a resistence to hay fever.

  • sheeyang By sheeyang
    on Jul 27, 2009  

    i've never known that honey can be used as an ingredients in home remedies until i recently started youtubing & researching the web because i'm getting over the makeup splurge & now moving onto skincare.

  • qmh1026 By qmh1026
    on Jul 27, 2009  

    I love to drink hot tea with honey! I drink chamomile tea every night

  • cdrushin By cdrushin
    on Jul 28, 2009  

    honey has many antiseptic properties along with tasting great. It can be used as a skin smoother and softener. It also keeps almost indefinately without spoiling.

  • Fuzz_vaca By Fuzz_vaca
    on Jul 28, 2009  

    we use honey for cough..... i heard it works. i never really tried it though.

  • Mellani By Mellani
    on Jul 28, 2009  

    I cant eat honey due to allergy but would love to use it more in the home.

  • angelofgrace2001 By angelofgrace2001
    on Jul 28, 2009  

    would love to hear more about the uses of honey!

  • bluday By bluday
    on Jul 28, 2009  

    I use it in tea, on cereal. I bake bread with it. Honey is great on biscuits.