Honey is 99% sugar.
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It's not processed tho, it's bee vomit, much better
Torn on this. Even though the macronutrients are similar, might be important differences not captured solely by that. Just instinctively seems like raw honey *has* to be better for you than processed sugar.
Honey has additional benefits, but the 1% of honey that makes it unique is not the only thing healthy about honey; the sugar contained in the other 99% is pure energy.
I see both sides. On the one hand, sugar is pure energy, on the other, it’s a concentrated form we never evolved to deal with in nature.
Like chewing a coca leaf is a nice stimulant that gave people in the Andres energy, extracting and refining the essence is cocaine.
Same with high-fructose corn syrup. It’s not corn, it’s not even the corn we’ve bred to be extra sweet, it’s the extracted sugar from the extra sweet corn.
So what about honey — that’s concentrated sugar, extracted from flowers by bees. But honey has been around forever, and the concentrating process happens naturally.
Not trying to provide an answer so much as how I see the question.
I agree that the human body is unprepared to tolerate HFCS, which cannot even exist without an extreme industrial process.
But what about evaporated cane juice?
Closer call, same with fresh squeezed orange juice. Nothing wrong with the ingredients or process. Only question is whether we’ve evolved to tolerate the concentration of dose. Maybe *some* of us have, others haven’t.