Some people believe drinking cinnamon and honey tea will help them lose weight, but no scientific evidence backs up this claim. While studies haven't looked at the effects of honey and cinnamon tea, they have found beneficial effects for the individual ingredients. People with metabolic syndrome who consume cinnamon mixed with water show improved percentage body fat and increased lean body mass, according to a 2008 article published by Richard A. Anderson in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.
Identification
Cinnamon is the brown bark of the cinnamon tree, according to the World's Healthiest Foods at whfoods.com, a project of the nonprofit George Mateljan Foundation. When dried, it forms a tube known as a quill, or cinnamon sticks. It can also be found as a ground powder. The World's Healthiest Foods states that cinnamon is one of the oldest spices around. It's a very good source of manganese, fiber, calcium and iron, according to the website. Honey is a sweet, rich golden liquid produced by honey bees. Flower nectar is mixed with special enzymes in the bees' saliva. It can be made from a variety of flowers and comes in several colors, including white, amber, red, brown and almost black.
Body Weight
A 2007 study published in the Journal of Food Science compared the body weights of rats fed sugar-free, 8 percent sucrose, 8 percent mixed sugars or 10 percent honey diets. Researcher L.M. Chepulis found that rats fed honey gained about the same amount of weight as rats fed sugar free diets, even though the honey-fed rats ate more food. Honey-fed rats gained less weight than those who were fed sucrose or mixed sugar diets, according to the study. Still, this study only shows that honey is beneficial when it replaces other sugar, not that it will be beneficial when added to tea.
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