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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have news for you if you think there is a health difference between a teaspoon of corn syrup and a teaspoon of honey. They are both packed full of sugar

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  • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are being downvoted but HFCS and honey are almost exactly chemically identical. They have to inspect honey farms to make sure it comes from bees since looking at the final product you can’t tell the difference.

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah they are both concentrated sugar extracts. Just because one is made by bees doesn’t make it suddenly not a heaping tablespoon of sugar you’ve just ingested. I eat plenty of honey and molasses but I don’t lie to myself and claim that they are any healthier than corn syrup or simple syrup. They are all just super concentrated fructose and glucose solutions.

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      • kofe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I thought the “benefits” to honey were kinda more for kids >1 so they can be exposed to different types of pollen. I dunno if it actually helps with immunity to allergies in the same way, but iirc it’s similar with peanuts. Kids exposed to them young are much less likely to develop allergies to them

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    • Deebster@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I liked when the US National Honey Board funded a study that compared honey, cane sugar, and HFCS and found they’re all about the same (and all raised a key blood fat, a marker for heart disease).

      Of course, the truth is that sugar’s sugar and you should have limited amounts of it, but when it’s as cheap a HFCS is in the States, they can stick it in everything.

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  • rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a health difference though …ucsf.edu/the-sweet-science-behind-honey.html

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trace amounts of proteins and antioxidants, but it’s still an added sugar.

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  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But honey is natural, corn syrup has chemicals in it!

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    • KISSmyOS@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I prefer honey cause I’m no goddamn liberal hippie, so it’s important to me that animals were killed for my food.

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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it was a bunch of different honeys they would have listed the types on the front of the bottle, I'm sure. The word "Texas" heavily implies that it's made out of something terrible.

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• LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It seems not to be as well known as I thought, but most commercial honey sold in the US is not actually honey:

  But the honey industry is hiding a secret. There’s a high chance that your store-bought honey is fake. While fake honey usually includes some amount of real honey, it is often mixed with other corn, rice, or sugar cane syrup to reduce its cost. These fillers are far cheaper than raw honey and are used to produce more honey, quicker. In fact, up to 76% of honey sold in the US is not really honey, at least not entirely.

  There were a bunch of stories about this several years ago after a minor controversy, but it didn’t stay in the news long, so I guess it fell out of public consciousness.

  If you want real honey, you’ll want to buy from small, local dealers.

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