Why Mushrooms, Bees & Honey Go Together Well !

Warm water, mushroom extract and honey blended in your favourite cup, is the ideal way to make your taste buds sing, but it doesn't just stop there.

There are many other health benefits stemming from mixing a teaspoon of honey with your mushroom extracts!

But first understanding the difference between what happens when you use boiling water, as opposed to warm water is important.

Heat increases kinetic energy, molecules vibrate more violently and the 3D structure of proteins, which is at the heart of their ability to perform, begin to unfold.

The antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal properties and all the other health benefits that come from mixing your mushroom extract with honey, are compromised when using boiling water.

So have your cuppa as as warm as you like, but keep it off the boil!

Our biological link to mushrooms and honey is startling. We share nearly 50% of our DNA with mushrooms, making humans closer to fungi than a plant, and our blood is very similar in chemical composition to honey.

Bees have been seen to forage on mushrooms, and things that happen in the wild, rarely happen for any other reason than for nutrition, or medicine.

Studies using Amadou (Fomes) and Reishi (Ganoderma) indicate bees gain similar health benefits from fungi and their antimicrobial properties, as we do.

Honey on its own has antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Coupled with a daily dose of your mushroom extract, it's a sure way of increasing the number of healthy agents and building a doubly formidable defence against oxidative stress and the potential onslaught of illness and disease.

Plus they taste great together!