Honey: an energetic food

Honey is made almost wholly of sugars, which represent between 95 and more than 99% of the solid matter. Simple sugars (fructose and glucose) make up the majority of the sugars present (85-95%), especially fructose. Honey's physical and nutritional properties are mostly due to this composition, particularly to the high fructose content.
In a balanced diet there is little room for simple sugars (and sweets in general). It is a commonly known fact that "sweets are bad for you". Actually sweets, like any other food, are neither good nor bad in themselves: everything depends on the balance between quantity and the body's needs, or its problems. And of course there are differences between one sweet and another.
Honey is the only food that owes all its peculiarities to nature (plants and bees) since it is not