“Honey, they put sugar in my honey”! Well.. most likely not!

Perhaps the biggest concern of honey consumers is honey getting hard in the bottle/jar:

“I’ve been cheated! This honey is no good!”

“I got some fake honey!”

I’ve written about this before, but the complaint is so prevalent and the belief so ingrained I thought I would revisit it.

First of all (and you may gasp!)… yes! “They [the bees], did put sugar in your honey!”

Honey is sweet because of its high concentrations of the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. It has about the same relative sweetness as sucrose (table sugar). One standard tablespoon (15 mL) of honey provides around 190 kilojoules (46 kilocalories) of food energy. It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor when used as a sweetener. Most microorganisms cannot grow in honey and sealed honey therefore does not spoil. Samples of honey discovered in archaeological contexts have proven edible even after thousands of years.

So… yes!!! Real honey does contain sugar… fructose and sucrose, but not

How to Decrystallize Honey Safely

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey