Why honey is the best natural sweetener: a comparison with sugar and other sweeteners.
With the biscuit flavor, we strived to choose the best and most natural sweetener for our desserts. Find out why honey is the best natural sweetener!
Not all sugar alternatives are created equal, and it is important to make informed choices for a better and healthier life. In this blog post, we will present the remarkable benefits of honey. We compared honey with several sweeteners, highlighting honey's excellent nutritional value, aroma, and sweetening ability.
Join us on a journey full of flavors and get to know honey as the best natural sweetener!
The excellence of honey:
Honey has been used for centuries and is highly prized for its aroma and beneficial effects. Unlike refined sugar, honey is full of valuable nutrients, strengthens the body's resistance and heals wounds, and relieves coughs and sore throats.
The best thing is that honey is completely unrefined, absolutely natural, and can be consumed without any intermediate steps, straight from the honeybee.
Honey is the only natural sweetener that not only sweetens, but also naturally enhances and highlights the flavors of other ingredients, unlike sugar, which simply hides flavors with sweetness, often leaving an unpleasant aftertaste.
Comparison of honey and sugar:
Honey itself is actually sweeter than sugar. Why? Because honey is made up of two types of sugar that are easier for our bodies to recognize and digest. Honey has a greater sweetening power than refined sugar, so you only need a small amount.
To better understand how honey compares to sugar, check out the summary below, which shows the exact replacement ratios for sugar and honey, so you can use the right amounts of honey in your favorite recipes.
With our guide image, you can confidently use honey in your recipes while enjoying its beneficial effects:
What makes honey better than other sweeteners?
When it comes to sweetening our food or drinks, choosing the right sweetener is paramount to our well-being. For example, the controversial stevia and erythritol, according to most sources, actually cause more cravings for the sweet taste, because although they are naturally occurring, they are not truly natural when used as sweeteners in a concentrated form, so they are less recognizable to our bodies, making stevia and erythritol less healthy compared to honey. Of course, even though honey is a much better sweetener, it still contains simple natural sugars, so we should take the energy content of honey into account when planning our diet.
Let's continue exploring sweeteners:
- Refined sugar: Refined sugar is generally the most commonly used sweetener due to its cheapness and availability. However, it is devoid of nutrients and has been linked to many health problems, such as obesity and organ failure. In contrast, honey provides a natural, nutritious, and unique sugar that our bodies handle much better.
- Artificial sweeteners: Despite being low in calories, they disrupt digestion, disrupt gut flora, and can cause surprising weight gain and other surprising damage to our bodies. In contrast, honey is easily digestible by humans and actually supports gut flora, not destroys it.
- Agave syrup: It is advertised as a natural sweetener, but it undergoes a lot of refining, has little nutritional value and is not very healthy. On the other hand, honey retains its natural composition, making it a more balanced and nutritious choice.
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