does heating honey, ie in tea or hot water, destroy it's antibacterial properties?

Answer 1

Yes. It's antibacterial properties come from the concentration of "natural sugar" and the lack of moisture in the honey. Once you dilute the honey, those properties are gone.

Answer 2

Honey doesn't really have antibacterial properties...sort of.

Honey, in its natural form has very, very little water in it. Because of this bacteria cannot live in honey.

That doesn't make honey antibacterial.

For example: botulism bacteria can only survive in honey by becoming a spore. This is why honey is dangerous to infants. Their immune systems cannot handle these spores and they will get botulism from honey if the spores are present.

See? Honey isn't anti-bacterial because it can't kill the bacteria hiding in it. It's just that bacteria can't "live" in it.

Unless you embalmed yourself with it, you cannot put enough honey in your body to prevent the bacteria from thriving.

Supposedly Alexander the Great was embalmed in honey.

Once you add it to tea, the honey is now mingled with lots and lots of water. It's just sucrose and trace minerals and phytochemicals which give honey different flavors depending on what flowers the pollen was collected from.

Answer 3

heating honey does destroy it's antibacterial properties, but not tea. tea doesn't have antibacterial, but antioxodant. so it's ok to put tea in hot water but not honey

Answer 4

It depends on how hot and how long it stays at that temperature. That is what pasteurizing does to it. But just in a cup of tea or hot water it probably wont do anything to it.

Answer 5

. yes it does because then it is not pure honey it is somewhat pasteurized

Answer 6

my opinion is yes,did you know honey is the only food that doesnt mold

Answer 7

personally, I do not believe that it does, it should intenseify the antioxidants, but then I am not a nutrtionalist