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Honey Bioavailability

Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential

  • 1st Edition - January 23, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Rajesh Kumar Jaryal, Younis Ahmad Hajam, Shamsher S. Kanwar
  • Language: English

Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and gl… Read more

Description

Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and global quality testing. The book also explores how honey as a functional food can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade honey and it pharmacological importance, readers will gain insights into honey’s bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey’s effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases, and more.

Key features

  • Investigates the efficacy of honey in the management of a wide range of diseases and conditions
  • Explains the benefits of honey’s key pleiotropic properties as antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and more
  • Highlights honey as a nutritional supplement to protect against certain metabolic diseases
  • Explores methods of sustainable honey production, harvesting, composition, and quality testing

Readership

Researchers in the food sciences studying nutrition, diet, and the therapeutic effects of food to optimize health. Health care professionals, pharmacologists, and apiculturists

Table of contents

1. Understanding Honey Bioavailability

2. Value Addition in Honey for enhancing its Bioavailability

3. Pleiotropic Properties and Therapeutic Potential of Honey

4. Herbal Honey, Uses and Future Perspectives

5. Sustainable Apicultural Practices for Welfare of Mankind

6. Honey as a Food Supplement

7. Nutritional Importance of Honey

8. Honey Based Formulations in Traditional Medical Systems

9. Therapeutic Effect of Honey for Respiratory Infections

10. Honey in Management of Viral Diseases with Special Emphasis on COVID-19

11. Honey in Diabetes Management: Facts & Myths

12. Honey in Reproductive Health Management

13. Skin Rejuvenation and Dermatitis Management Using Honey

14. Medicinal Evaluation of Potential Herbs for Producing Herbal Honey

15. Therapeutic Potential of Honey in Alzheimer’s Disease Management

16. Antiaging Potential of Honey

17. Bee-yond Medicine: Honey's Bioactives as Antioxidants

18. Anti-proliferative Effect of Honey in Tumorigenicity of Different Cancer Types

19. Honey in Eye Disease Management

20. Future Perspectives of Honey in the Modern Medicine System

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 23, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

RJ

Rajesh Kumar Jaryal

Rajesh Kumar Jaryal obtained his Masters in Zoology from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) India and PhD from the same institution. Dr Kumar started his academic career in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) India. He has about 12 years of experience in teaching and research. His main research areas are Animal Physiology, Cancer Biology and Natural Products. Currently, he is working on isolating anti-cancer compounds and developing herbal drugs for various cancer types. Dr. Kumar has completed a number of major research projects sponsored by government agencies. Dr. Kumar is member of various prestigious scientific societies and has also served as a reviewer for several journals of national and international repute. Dr. Kumar has published approximately 20 books and 150 research articles in highly reputable journals.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Assistant Director, Green Energy & Nanotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), India

YH

Younis Ahmad Hajam

Dr. Younis Ahmad Hajam holds a doctorate in Zoology from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidayalaya (A Central University), in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences and Allied Health Sciences, Sant Baba Bhag Singh University, Punjab, India. Formerly Dr Younis Ahmad worked as Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Career Point University, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is teaching undergraduate and post graduate and doctorate students. His areas of interests include chronic diseases and their management. He has published 50 research papers in leading national and international journals, 50 book chapters and 10 national proceedings and has published 8 books as an editor in Springer, Apple Academic Press, NOVA Science Publishers, Taylor and Francis. He has received a national award for his contributions in biological science and is an editorial member of various international journals and a member of Asian Council of Science editors.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences and Allied Health Sciences, Sant Baba Bhag Singh University, Punjab, India

SK

Shamsher S. Kanwar

Shamsher S Kanwar is a Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology and IPR Chair Professor at Panjab University Chandigarh, India. His career includes several notable fellowships: a 1998–99 Indian National Science Academy Fellowship studying tuberculosis epidemiology at CDRI Lucknow; a 1999–2000 SERC fellowship researching multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis strains at the National Institute of Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra; a 2005–06 Biotechnology Overseas Associateship examining HIV-Tat and drug abuse effects on neural cells at Kansas University Medical College, USA; and a 2008 Visiting Scholar role in stem cell research at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kanwar's research focuses on microbiology, immunology, cell culture, and fermentation, with an emphasis on developing bio-products and bioprocesses, particularly for a range of extracellular microbial enzymes, as an alternative to traditional antibiotics and antilipolytic drugs. Currently, Dr. Kanwar is dedicated to the development of anticancer therapeutics through the exploration of microbial ribonuclease, cholesterol oxidase, and L-methionase.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology and IPR Chair Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

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