Eli5 if honey is naturally antibacterial and yogurt has probiotics, does eating them together cancel out the benefits?
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The amount of antibiotics in honey is so small that it have no impact on bacteria population once you mix it with water. You can literally ferment honey into meed just by mixing it with water. Similarly the amount of bacteria from yogurt that will make it past your upper digestion system is so little that it will not have any impact in anyone except a few rare conditions. So honey does not cancel out yogurt because both do nothing to your microbes.
However if you are curious as to which of the two will win if you mix them the yogurt will. This is because the primary defense against microbes in honey is the lack of water in it. Any bacteria which end up in honey is going to dry out. The antibiotics are just to make it harder for any bacteria which specialize in these dry conditions. But yogurt have a lot of water in it. So if you mix it into honey there is a lot of water for the bacteria to thrive. And all the added sugar of the honey will just feed the microbes even more.
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