Honey

Each year, Americans are projected to eat approximately 400 million pounds of honey. This delectable beverage has several helpful ingredients, including digestive enzymes. The enzymes contained in honey, particularly raw honey, are as follows:

• Diastases: Break down starch into maltose
• Amylases: Break down starch into sugars like glucose and maltose
• Invertases: Break down sucrose, a type of sugar, into glucose and fructose
• Proteases: Break down proteins into amino acids

If you want to get the digestive health advantages of honey, make sure you buy raw honey. Heat is frequently used in the processing of honey, and extreme heat can disrupt digestive enzymes.