Sugar Versus Honey..
While natural honey is less processed and provides small amounts of nutrients and antioxidants that white granulated sugar lacks, it provides even more calories than sugar and has a similar carbohydrate profile. If you are going to eat sweets, honey may be a bit healthier than sugar.
Both honey and granulated sugar come from natural sources, but honey, which is sold raw or pasteurized, undergoes much less processing than white granulated sugar. Honey and sugar differ in the types and ratios of carbohydrates they contain.
Both are composed of roughly equal amounts of glucose and fructose, but in sugar, the two are bound together to make sucrose.
Honey contains a higher percentage of fructose, and the fructose and glucose arenโt bound together, so it’s digested differently from sugar.
Honey also contains other carbohydrate groups called oligosaccharides, which could have beneficial effects.
CALORIES AND CARBS
One tablespoon of sugar yields 49 calories and about 15 grams of carbohydrate.
Honey, which is denser than sugar, has 68 calories and 17.2 grams of carbohydrate per tablespoon. However, honey tastes sweeter than sugar so you may use less of it.
NUTRIENTS AND ANTIOXIDANTS
Any vitamins and minerals are stripped away when white granulated sugar is processed, so sugar is empty calories. Honey does contain small amounts of antioxidants, but not enough to matter unless you eat a lot of it. Research has also shown that darker honeys, such as buckwheat honey, provide more antioxidants than lighter honeys.
EFFECTS ON BLOOD SUGAR AND LIPIDS
Thereโs some evidence that honey may lower blood sugar and blood lipids such as cholesterol in diabetics. According to the researchers, either honeyโs fructose or its oligosaccharides could be responsible for its beneficial effects. However, the evidence is sparse, and the team recommended more well-designed studies.
SAFETY
Honey does pose one health safety concern that sugar doesnโt.
Honey can contain a small number of botulism spores, so you should never give it to a baby under the age of 1.
Babies’ immune systems arenโt fully developed, but adults can safely eat honey.
Fascinating facts, if facts they be. I hope you didn’t ,lift that from Wikipedia because the errors on there are legendary, lol
Honey tastes so good. People aren’t overdoing it.
Honey is often tasted by the particular flowers that the bees visit……clover,eucalypts,roses etc.
Theres a lot of mangroves around where I live …the local honey tastes suspiciously of crabs and prawns.
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not eating any of your local honey then ha ha ha cappy ,….
Do you know the other name for Honey? It is called bee “vomit “. Just think about it….. ๐
Direct from the bees’ guts to ours. ๐
Here’s something to change the topic of girl conversation away from tupperware….. Did you know that proportionally to its body size, the genitalia of a drone bee are the largest of any animal on earth? ๐ฏ
Unfortunately ,they don’t live that long to enjoy it, if ever ! Apparently only 10 out of 500 to 1000 drones in a beehive get to mate with the queen and die …the rest die without doing it ! ๐
Any subject can get gross and get to the size of genitalia and no man even got involved. Who would have thought that. Well that one drone does a big sweet job. LOL
I think I,v joined the ranks of the unlucky drones ๐
Now that’s just not fair…..lol x