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ReviewHeliyon2023

A review on the phytochemical composition and health applications of honey.

Gerard-William Zammit Young, Renald Blundell

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Review in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Bee products as alternatives in the treatment of viral infections.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2026
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  11. Honey as a Natural Antimicrobial.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
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  16. Water kefir in co-fermentation withFood science and biotechnology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gerard-William Zammit YoungDepartment of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malta, Msida MSD2080, Malta.
Renald BlundellDepartment of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malta, Msida MSD2080, Malta.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Though honey has long been used as medicine, there is a scarcity of knowledge on how it interacts with the body. Scope and approach: While different types of honey have different chemical and medicinal properties according to their origin, this narrative review seeks to analyse the current knowledge on the chemical composition and therapeutic use of honey. With numerous chemical components, honey has a range of health benefits in multiple disciplines of medicine, and provides an interesting prospect in chemical analysis with regards to identification of its origin. Key findings and conclusions: There is a great potential for the use of honey in medicine, primarily due to its antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. Recent studies on the phenolic and enzymatic components of honey have made honey's therapeutic method of action in relation to the above properties clearer, still more research needs to be conducted and more innovations need to be tested, for the full potential of honey to be understood.

Indexed as

AntioxidantHoneyMedical grade honeyModern medicineTraditional medicine

Identifiers

PMID36755588
PMCPMC9900486

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