All honeys are sweet, due to the presence of the sugars fructose and glucose. However, fructose is 2.5 times sweeter than glucose. So, those honeys which have more fructose than glucose are more sweeter than those with a higher concentration of glucose. Fructose is slightly sweeter than sucros...
Sugar is Sugar but there are different forms of carbohydrates or sugar. Natural and Raw sugars contain less sugar for they also have other nutrients and vitamins. High Fructose Corn Syrup, Processed or refined have more sugar for the other nutrients and vitamins have been stripped out by the ...
Interestingly, women who consumed a lot of fruit juice--which is high in natural fructose--were not at increased risk of diabetes. This fact leaded researchers to suppose that naturally occurring sugars may have different metabolic effects than added sugars. It is quite possible that vitamins, mi...