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I had a chance to read the comments of Schneider¹ on the article by Hamzaoglu et al.² This latter article reports an interesting observation on the activity of honey in the inhibition of surgical tumor implantation. Schneider states that honey will reach a solid basis in surgical practice only when clear insight into the components of this nutrient are achieved. Besides the fact that the effects observed by Hamzaoglu and colleagues could simply be attributed to a local increase in viscosity by honey, which creates an environment unfavorable to the spreading of metastatic cells, Schneider does not take into account that honey is a highly complex mixture of at least 200 phytochemicals whose composition is dependent on its geographical and floral origin. It is true that honey behaves as a promising cancer chemopreventive nutrient: it has a significant antioxidant content and contains several chemicals with radical scavenging properties (chlorogenic acid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Roberto Maffei Facino, PhD