Cooking with honey. Is it not so funny?

Miranda is a contributor at Food52.

added about 1 year ago

Nope - there is nothing wrong with heating honey! She probably means that if you're following an Ayurvedic diet, you would consider heated honey to be "toxic", but health & nutrition-wise, warm honey is not at all harmful.

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added about 1 year ago

I heat and/or cook with honey a lot and I am still kickin'!!! I have never heard that is goes toxic on you

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PistachioDoughnut added about 1 year ago

I can understand your friend's concern, but Miranda is right as my mother-in-law is also Ayurveda doc and she opposes such things. But, if you are taking honey in form of medicine or ayurvedic diet then certainly they do not want you to heat it as compared to raw honey just because it would change its properties, but does not make it toxic. There are lot of things I get to hear from my mom in law about not having certain food combinations, but I still do..and I am fine..I would like to further ask you that is there a way you can add honey once your food is prepared or heated, then you can add it at the end, thus you won't be heating it.
I found this article a little helpful which says something your friend suggests but still has a scope of heating honey.
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PistachioDoughnut added about 1 year ago

Further to support what I said above that it changes some properties of raw honey VS heated honey - Ross Conrad , a fellow Vermonter and author of Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture. He said the suggestion that honey becomes toxic in hot water is really not accurate.

“The idea is that heat destroys enzymes. And basically any time you are going to heat honey the enzymes are going to get destroyed and as a result dilute a lot of the medicinal value of the honey. Raw and unfiltered honey has incredible antibacterial and antifungal properties. It’s very, very healing in many ways.”

That said, there’s no evidence that heat-treated honey is actually toxic

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