Many people believe that drinking cassava powder combined with honey will create an extremely toxic substance that can kill people. Is this true or false? (Quynh, 32 years old, Hanoi)
The information that honey eaten with tapioca starch causes death is just a popular belief. According to scientific research, these two foods are not incompatible. Therefore, when used together, it cannot affect human life. On the contrary, honey eaten with tapioca starch also brings many benefits to users.
Honey is formed from the process of worker bees collecting nectar from flowers. It has antibacterial, anti-fungal, and antioxidant properties thanks to a diverse source of nutrients. Since ancient times, people have known how to use honey as a natural medicine to support the treatment of diseases as well as a beauty method for women.
Over the years, honey has become an indispensable food. In addition to being used as a spice in cooking, the product is also used to support health care. In Oriental medicine, honey is also a tonic used for malnourished children and the elderly to improve health and flexibility.
Kudzu has a sweet taste, cool properties, and has the effect of cooling, treating neck pain, thirst, diabetes, diarrhea, and dysentery. Kudzu treats heatstroke, fever, headache, sweating, heartburn, and fatigue. In the hot summer weather, a glass of tapioca starch water helps you quench your thirst, fight fatigue, and reduce heatstroke and sunstroke. Tapioca starch also helps neutralize acid in the mucosa, reducing gastritis and irritable bowel. Basically, tapioca starch is benign and good for health.
Among the taboo foods recorded in medical documents, there is no tapioca starch. Both honey and tapioca powder have a sweet, neutral taste and have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Therefore, their combination does not cause health reactions.