The Effect of Honey on Blood Pressure and Fasting Blood Glucose (A Randomized Clinical Trial)

Given the high prevalence of chronic diseases, complementary treatments can be one of the ways to decrease the prevalence of these diseases. It has been shown that honey consumption can have beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease risk factors. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of honey intake compared with sucrose on blood pressure and fasting blood glucose among young healthy subjects.
Subjects & There were 60 healthy subjects, aged 18 to 30 years that were enrolled in this double blind randomized trial for one month. Participants were assigned randomly into two groups: honey (received 70 gram honey per day) and sucrose (received 70 gram sucrose per day). We measured Systolic and diastolic blood pressure and collected fasting blood glucose from all subjects in the beginning and end of study.
In the present study, there was no difference on the baseline FBS, SBP and DBP between the two groups (P > 0.3). Results showed that honey intake can decrease the FBS in healthy young individuals, but sucrose consumption increased it. In addition, The effect of sucrose on FBS was move significant than honey (P It is our conclusion that honey consumption decreases the FBS, but has no significant effect on SBP and DBP. Further studies are required to confirm these findings