Honey

Not only is honey sweet and delicious, but its great for a sore throat. Honey is an antimicrobial and can help kill the bacteria on the back of your throat. Enjoy a spoonful of honey or mix it into tea. Warm honey tea can give amazing relief to a sore throat. The combination of the warm liquid and the bacteriadestroying honey is a powerful onetwo punch. Mix it with ginger tea and youll have a delicious, soothing sore throat remedy. Research presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the worlds largest scientific society, found that honey is able to fight infection in multiple ways. For instance, honey has an arsenal of bacterialfighting weapons on hand, such as polyphenols, high sugar concentration, hydrogen peroxide, osmotic effect, and a natural acidity, all which protect the body from bacteria and actively target and destroy bacterial cells.