If you love honey, you probably heard of the new kid on the block, CBD Honey. CBD honey is simply honey, a natural sweetener, infused with hemp extract. The addition of CBD is an easy way to add the benefits of hemp derived CBD into your diet.
Benefits of Honey
Besides being a delicious natural sweetener, research has shown that honey contains a wide array of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants. Here are some of the benefits of including honey into your diet:
- Honey is completely natural.
- Honey is often recommended as an at-home remedy for colds. Drinking tea or warm lemon water mixed with honey will help soothe a sore throat.
- Honey is a versatile pantry ingredient as it comes in many textures such as liquid, comb, crystallized, and whipped.
- Honey helps supports bees which are essential to the ecosystem.
Benefits of CBD Honey
In recent years, the use of CBD to treat various health conditions has risen significantly. CBD won’t get you “high” and research suggests that it may help:
- reduce anxiety and depression
- improve sleep
- reduce seizures in people with epilepsy
- soothe pain and inflammation
- improve heart health
CBD-infused honey is particularly appealing because you can customize how much you consume and add it to your favorite foods and drinks.
A CBD Honey Review
Thanks to my sponsor, Sweet Joe’s, for supplying the free product to help me write this post today!
I am currently going through a particularly stressful time and getting a good night’s sleep is crucial. I often take 2 melatonin chews before bedtime but, while it does help me fall asleep, it doesn’t do a great job helping me sleep the whole night through.
So, I was excited to try Sweet Joe’s Sleep CBD Honey Bear. In addition to raw unfiltered honey, Sleep CBD Honey Bear contains melatonin and broad-spectrum CBD hemp to promote calm and relaxation.
This past week, I stirred 1 tablespoon of Sweet Joe’s Sleep CBD Honey Bear into hot tea before heading up to bed. The honey tastes delicious and I enjoyed a wonderful, restful sleep! Some nights I skipped the tea and just swallowed a spoonful of straight honey. Both methods worked equally well! Each tablesppon provides 10mg of CBD.
Other great honey items from Sweet Joe’s include these portable honey sticks and beeswax lip balms. I love the convenience of the perfectly portioned honey sticks. Perfect for travel! The lip balms contain no artificial ingredients. Made from natural beeswax, shea butter, and hemp oil, they taste great (especially the coconut) with no waxy feel!
I also appreciate the fact that Sweet Joe’s stand by their products and publish their lab test results on their website.
Quick Honey Recipes
The color, flavor and even aroma of honey differs, depending on the nectar of flowers visited by the bees that made it. In general, lighter-colored honeys are milder in flavor than darker-colored honeys. Here are some easy ways to incorporate honey into your diet:
- Spread peanut some almond butter on toast and drizzle some CBD honey over the top for a quick breakfast or snack.
- For a stir-fry glaze, combine 1/4 cup honey, 2 T soy sauce, 1 tsp. ground ginger, and some crushed red pepper. Add it as the last step in your stir-fry and cook until the glaze is slightly thickened.
- Keep in mind that honey is sweeter than most other sweeteners so you should use a reduced amount when substituting in your own recipes.
Interesting Facts About Honey
Some other interesting facts about honey are:
- Archaeologists found 2000-year-old jars of honey in Egyptian tombs!
- Honey bees must visit about 2 million flowers to make just 1 pound of honey.
- Infants under 1 year of age should not consume honey.
- For more information about honey, visit the National Honey Board.
I hope you start introducing CBD honey into your diet too!
I was suffering from anxiety and it was becoming really hard to relax. I used CBD honey and now I enjoy quality sleep at night. Thank you for sharing such wonderful remedy.