Here's something I pulled from a book called Total Nutrition, i found it very interesting. Here goes:
Honey is another of those "natural" goods surrounded by more myth and mystique than reality. Actually, it differs very little from sucrose. While table sugar is pure sucrose, honey is a mixture of sugars(fructose,glucose, sucrose, etc.) formed from nectar by an enzyme--honey invertase--present in the bodies of bees. A tablespoon of Table sugar contains 46 calories, a tablespoon of honey contains 64.
Personally, I think sugar is sugar, it's all calories. If you're going to go by the glycemic index, then fructose would be your choice. The comparison of the three: Glucose 100(GI) Honey 87(GI) Fructose20(GI)
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fructose is bad at replacing muscle glycogen. Honey on the other hand, is great pre workout meal, or post workout solid meal. A sugar is not a sugar, all carbs are sugars, Glycemic index honeslty does not have too much meaning, unless your trying to get in say contest condition. Who here eats just a piece of white bread or a bowl of rice for a meal? Mixed meals drastically change GI.
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