Honey Bioavailability

Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-34147-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Little is known about honey's pleiotropic properties and medicinal potential. Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential, begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting and quality testing found around the globe, and moves into exploring how honey, as a functional food, can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade and the pharmacological importance of honey, readers of Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential, will gain insight to honey’s bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey’s effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases and more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaryal, Rajesh Kumar

Hajam, Younis Ahmad

Kanwar, Shamsher S.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Ernährungsmedizin, Diätetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sustainable Apicultural Practices for Welfare of Mankind
2. Composition and Quality Testing
3. Pleiotropic Properties and Therapeutic Potential
4. Herbal Honey, Uses and Value Addition
5. Understanding Honey Bioavailability
6. Honey as a Food Supplement
7. Nutritional Importance of Honey
8. Honey Based Formulations in Traditional Medical Systems
9. Managing Respiratory Tract Infections
10. Managing Viral Diseases: COVID-19 and More
11. Diabetes Management
12. Anal Disorder Management
13. Reproductive Health Management
14. Skin Rejuvenation and Dermatitis Management
15. Allergies and Hypersensitivity Suppression Management
16. Alzheimer’s Disease Management
17. Antiaging Potential
18. Periodontal Disease Management
19. Eye Disease Management
20. Future Perspectives in the Modern Medicine System

Über Autor(innen)

Hajam, Younis Ahmad
Dr. Younis Ahmad Hajam holds a doctorate in Zoology from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidayalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences and Allied Health Sciences, Sant Baba Bhag Singh University, Punjab, India. Formerly Dr Younis Ahmad worked as Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Career Point University, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is teaching under graduate and post graduate and doctorate students. His areas of interests include chronic diseases and their management.

He has published 50 research papers in leading national and international journals, 50 book chapters and 10 national proceedings and has published 8 books as an editor in Springer, Apple Academic Press, NOVA Science Publishers, Taylor and Francis. He has received a national award for his contributions in biological science and is an editorial member of various international journals and a member of Asian Council of Science editors.

Kanwar, Shamsher S.
Shamsher S Kanwar is Professor of Biotechnology and Director of IPRCC at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. His research is in the fields of microbiology, immunology/ cell culture and fermentation, with an emphasis on developing bio-products and bio-processes, for a variety of extracellular microbial enzymes as an alternative to traditional antibiotics & antilipolytic drugs. Currently Dr. Kanwar has been developing anticancer therapeutics by exploring the use of microbial ribonuclease, cholesterol oxidase and L-methionase.

Jaryal, Rajesh Kumar
Dr Kumar obtained his Masters in Zoology from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) India in 2007 and PhD from the same institution in 2013. Dr Kumar started his academic career in 2013 and currently is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) India. He has about 10 years of experience in teaching and research with a concentrated interest in Honey and Honeybees, Animal Physiology and Applied Zoology. Dr Kumar has been awarded a Meritorious Fellowship for the year 2009-2011 by the University Grants Commission, Govt of India. He is a Fellow of Himalayan Science and Technology Communications and is a life member of many prestigious agencies. He has published more than 125 Research Articles including 50 Book Chapters.