Honey Nutrition Facts

Honey is famous for its health benefits and rich nutrition, the nutritious value of honey varies across nectar source where bees feed and forage. Let us have a look at the chemistry of this natural sweetener, nectar primarily composed of sucrose and water. Bees add enzymes that produce other chemical compounds.Sugar adds up 90% of honey's dry weight, sugar is nothing but glucose and fructose two basic ingredients of all sweeteners. Honey is a complete food which has 82% monosaccharide (fructose and glucose), 2% of vitamin, minerals, protein,organic acids and rest is water. Honey has vitamins which include Vitamin B,riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and vitamin B6 and minerals such as calcium, copper, magnesium, iron, sodium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. Honey is rich in antioxidants and proline (an amino acid found in most proteins).

 

A detailed report about the honey nutrient content, published by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows here