What are you drinking right now?

[Happy Monkey]

I stand corrected.

But I maintain that buckwheat makes nasty honey.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Honey's just as much sugar as is corn syrup, it's not any healthier just because it was in a bee's mouth.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Point of order: honey is a monosaccharide, while corn syrup (and regular sugar, and all the other fake sugars except saccharin) are polysaccharides. It makes a difference.

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I stand corrected.

I stand partially uncorrected - honey and high-fructose corn syrup are both primarily fructose and glucose, ie, monosaccharides.

So that part of my initial post was correct. Honey is equivalent to HFCS on that level. In fact, HFCS is more similar to honey than is regular corn syrup.

But the bee's mouth does in fact dissolve di- and poly-saccharides from nectar and pollen into monosaccharides, so it does matter that it was in the bee's mouth.

And, while not stated directly, the implication that all sugars, including those not mentioned in the post are equivalent was incorrect.