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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
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