👉 Honey bees visit a flower and extract the nectar of this flower. This nectar is also called by the name sucrose, which is the chemical name for the white sugar or the table sugar.
👉 Honey bees break this sucrose into Fructose and glucose in their stomach to convert this into Honey. Fructose and glucose are our bodies' preferred form of sweeteners because:
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You need less of them. Fructose is way sweeter than sucrose, which means less daily carbohydrates intake.
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Your blood sugar does not spike quickly after using them because of the low Glycemic Index (GI) of Honey.
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Apart from Fructose and Glucose, Honey is packed with amino acids, pollen & antioxidants.
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White sugar has a GI of 65, while most floral varieties of raw honey have a GI that ranges from 35 to 55.