Comments on: The Hidden “Natural” Sugar in Your Food https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/09/hidden-sugar-in-your-food/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter Bray https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/09/hidden-sugar-in-your-food/#comment-103127 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:54:26 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=29001#comment-103127 Your article states:
“a spoon of honey actually has a higher calorie count than sugar”
This is wrong… or you are not comparing the same weight in which case it is misleading.

Honey is around 18% water, with zero calories and 80% carbohydrates at 4.16 calories per gram. This calculates as follows:
1 gm of sugar is 4.16 calories.
1 gm of honey is 3.33 calories

Honey is slightly sweeter than sugar (sucrose) weight for weight due to the ratio and sweetness of the simple sugars in honey, so you need less to have the same sweetening effect as sugar.

These are not huge differences, but the opposite of what you claim in your article.

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