There is a health difference though …ucsf.edu/the-sweet-science-behind-honey.html
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BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 months agoI 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
rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 months ago
Trace amounts of proteins and antioxidants, but it’s still an added sugar.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
But honey is natural, corn syrup has chemicals in it!
KISSmyOS@feddit.de 3 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.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 3 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.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 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.
kofe@lemmy.world 3 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
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 months ago
That makes sense at first glance, but it’s not true when you think about it for a bit. People have allergic reactto grasses and trees that broadcast spawn their pollen all over the place. Bees collect nectar from flowering plants and spread pollen around that way. Plants only choose one over the other since they are both very resource intensive mating strategies. No one is allergic to lillac, but plenty of people are allergic to ragweed.
Deebster@lemmy.ml 3 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.