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Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes
Bee products have been used for centuries for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic purposes, and their properties are still a subject of research, which provide new arguments in favour of their use. The research aimed to determine the current state of use of bee products by Polish consumers and determi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9919050/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771447 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030737 |
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author | Kowalczuk, Iwona Gębski, Jerzy Stangierska, Dagmara Szymańska, Agata |
author_facet | Kowalczuk, Iwona Gębski, Jerzy Stangierska, Dagmara Szymańska, Agata |
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description | Bee products have been used for centuries for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic purposes, and their properties are still a subject of research, which provide new arguments in favour of their use. The research aimed to determine the current state of use of bee products by Polish consumers and determine the ways and conditions of their use, with particular reference to the level of nutritional knowledge and health status. The survey was conducted using the CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) method on 487 respondents. It was found that honey is used mainly for culinary purposes and, to a lesser extent, for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Other bee products are much less commonly used than honey—mainly beeswax and royal jelly for cosmetic purposes and propolis and bee pollen for medicinal purposes. Segments distinguished by the frequency of use of honey for particular purposes were differentiated by gender, age, income level, use of other bee products, and motivation to use them. Their differences were also found in terms of the level of nutritional knowledge and self-assessed health status—the highest ratings in both categories were indicated by representatives of the Honey users’ segment, which consisted of people who use honey most frequently for cooking, cosmetic and medicinal purposes. Regression analysis additionally showed that higher levels of nutritional knowledge and better health status were associated with the use of honey to treat gastrointestinal ailments and with the use of propolis for medicinal purposes. |
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spelling | pubmed-99190502023-02-12 Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes Kowalczuk, Iwona Gębski, Jerzy Stangierska, Dagmara Szymańska, Agata Nutrients Article Bee products have been used for centuries for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic purposes, and their properties are still a subject of research, which provide new arguments in favour of their use. The research aimed to determine the current state of use of bee products by Polish consumers and determine the ways and conditions of their use, with particular reference to the level of nutritional knowledge and health status. The survey was conducted using the CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) method on 487 respondents. It was found that honey is used mainly for culinary purposes and, to a lesser extent, for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Other bee products are much less commonly used than honey—mainly beeswax and royal jelly for cosmetic purposes and propolis and bee pollen for medicinal purposes. Segments distinguished by the frequency of use of honey for particular purposes were differentiated by gender, age, income level, use of other bee products, and motivation to use them. Their differences were also found in terms of the level of nutritional knowledge and self-assessed health status—the highest ratings in both categories were indicated by representatives of the Honey users’ segment, which consisted of people who use honey most frequently for cooking, cosmetic and medicinal purposes. Regression analysis additionally showed that higher levels of nutritional knowledge and better health status were associated with the use of honey to treat gastrointestinal ailments and with the use of propolis for medicinal purposes. MDPI 2023-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9919050/ /pubmed/36771447 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030737 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kowalczuk, Iwona Gębski, Jerzy Stangierska, Dagmara Szymańska, Agata Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes |
title | Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes |
title_full | Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes |
title_fullStr | Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes |
title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes |
title_short | Determinants of Honey and Other Bee Products Use for Culinary, Cosmetic, and Medical Purposes |
title_sort | determinants of honey and other bee products use for culinary, cosmetic, and medical purposes |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9919050/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771447 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030737 |
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