Many of our customers as us what goes into making honey, and surprisingly enough many are also keen to know, well, what makes honey, honey. Here’s a little bit of scientific information about the composition of honey that you may find helpful:
- Honey has a similar composition to granulated sugar (50% Fructose & Fructose, and 44% Glucose) and approximately the same relative sweetness of Sucrose (97% of the sweetness of Sucrose).
- It is a mixture of sugars and other compounds, and also contains tiny amounts of several compounds thought to function as antioxidants, including Chrysin, Pinobanksin, Vitamin C, Catalase, and Pinocembrin. But the specific composition of any batch of honey will depend largely on the mix of flowers available to the bees that produced the honey.
A typical analysis of honey would be:
- Fructose – 38%
- Glucose – 31%
- Sucrose – 1.0%
- Water – 17%
- Other Sugars – 9.0%
- Ash – 0.17%
- Others – 3.38%
The analysis of the Sugar content of honey is used for detecting adulteration.
