If you’re choosing between the sugar and honey from a health perspective, err on the side of the sticky stuff.
Honey is made mostly of sugar, but it’s about 30 percent glucose and less than 40 percent fructose. And there are also about 20 other sugars in the mix, many of which are much more complex, and dextrin, a type of starchy fiber. This means that your body expends more energy to break it all down to glucose. Therefore, you end up accumulating fewer calories from it.
Honey also has trace elements in it, stuff that bees picked up while going from plant to plant. These will depend on region, so depending on the source of your honey it could have varying small amounts of minerals like zinc and selenium as well as some vitamins. And because honey doesn’t break down in nature, it doesn’t contain preservatives or other additives.
If you’re going to use a spoonful of something in your tea, go for honey over sugar.
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