/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14116444]

Is it healthier or better for you to use honey as a sweetener than sugar? I have a sauce recipe that uses a fuck load of sugar in it and I would like to make it healthier if I can.

[Anonymous No.14116450]

It's literally just sugar.

[Anonymous No.14116451]

>>14116444
not really. agave is a better option is it's low GI or whatever
honey might fuck up the taste of your dish, depends what you are making

[Anonymous No.14116456]

>>14116450
>It's literally just sugar.
retard

[Anonymous No.14116459]

>>14116451
The original recipe calls for 4 tbsp of sugar which i have cut to 3 tbsp. Would 3 tbsp of honey basically be the same?

[Anonymous No.14116460]

>>14116456
>The forager bees then return to the hive, where they regurgitate and transfer nectar to the hive bees. The hive bees then use their honey stomachs to ingest and regurgitate the nectar, forming bubbles between their mandibles repeatedly until it is partially digested. The bubbles create a large surface area per volume and a portion of the water is removed through evaporation.[16][11][13][17] Bee digestive enzymes hydrolyze sucrose to a mixture of glucose and fructose

Glucose-fructose. Sugar.

[Anonymous No.14116461]

>>14116444

[Anonymous No.14116479]

>>14116460
>literally just sugar
>ignoring the water, vitamins, minerals and other non-sugar carbohydrates
>saying literally
no retard
if it was 'literally sugar' we'd call it sugar, but we call it honey because it's not 'literally sugar'

[Anonymous No.14116482]

>>14116479
From a health perspective it is literally, genuinely, wholly, objectively, quantifiably no better than sugar.
You're still poisoning yourself with the fructose.

[Anonymous No.14116483]

>>14116479

[Anonymous No.14116489]

>>14116482
>From a health perspective it is literally, genuinely, wholly, objectively, quantifiably no better than sugar.
That's not the same thing as saying it IS sugar, fuck tardface
>>14116483
you started it

[Anonymous No.14116491]

Whatever health benefits honey has are lost when heated to around 40 degrees celcius. So the only reason to use it would be for the taste.

[Anonymous No.14116495]

>>14116489
In the context of "is honey healthier or better for you than sugar" it is LITERALLY just sugar.

[Anonymous No.14116498]

>>14116495
ok it's clear you can't speak or understand english properly so i won't waste my time anymore

[Anonymous No.14116499]

>>14116483
this
>>14116491
also this, however if you add it later to a chilled down dish it does have some health benefits

[Anonymous No.14116501]

>>14116498
Well neither of us are speaking here so if you're such a stickler for being literally literal then you're now a hypocrite.

[Anonymous No.14116513]

>>14116501
dont care im not even here anymore

[Anonymous No.14116522]

>>14116513
Coward.

[Anonymous No.14116523]

the autism is strong ITT

To answer OP's question: honey is a BIT better than refined white or brown sugar because it has some vitamins and minerals (provided it's not supermarket honey, which has lost most of its benefits due to the heating process), but it's MOSTLY the same thing.

Changing sugar for honey will give you a different taste and results, depending on what you're making. So, provided you're not making this recipe all the time, just use sugar.

My advice to you is to cut back on sugar somewhat or at least stop drinking sodas, if you do. That stuff is poison.

[Anonymous No.14116532]

>>14116523
>My advice to you is to cut back on sugar somewhat or at least stop drinking sodas, if you do. That stuff is poison.
I already don't drink soda, I just want to cut back on sugar elsewhere if I can.

[Anonymous No.14116570]

>>14116479
The tiny amount of vitamins and minerals in some honey makes no difference to your health.

[Anonymous No.14116683]

>>14116444
You’ll still be fat.

[Anonymous No.14116697]

>>14116489
Imagine spending this much time and energy arguing semantics

[Anonymous No.14116705]

>>14116444
honey is still 49% cornsyrup

[Anonymous No.14116720]

>>14116444
it doesnt matter they're both unhealthy. just stick with the recipe. you can try cooking without any sugar and using artificial sweetener after. everything you've read/heard about artificial sweeteners is a myth.

[Anonymous No.14116737]

My gf likes her tea with honey and it always seems like I have to add a shitload in order for it to become discernible. I'm not certain if its just because of the shitty clover honey I use or what

[Anonymous No.14118264]

>>14116444
no

>>14116451
most agave in stores is just a little agave and HFCS. Agave is not regulated like honey and so who knows whats in it. In large amount agave is not good for you.

>>14116460
this is correct

>>14116479
it's called honey when bees barf it up. but it's still basically sugar.

>>14116570
correct

[Anonymous No.14118335]

This is the reason why artificial sweetener exists

[Anonymous No.14118369]

>>14116570
Exactly this. It's like someone bragging about the number of minerals in their overpriced himalayan salt. Shit's negligible.

[Anonymous No.14118430]

qts

[Anonymous No.14118960]

>>14118264
>most agave in stores is just a little agave and HFCS
just because standards are so low in your shart marts, doesn't mean us civilized peoples drown everything in HFC

[Anonymous No.14119014]

>>14118335
ya but those are gross

[Anonymous No.14119056]

>>14116444
Good honey is probably a little better than white sugar. You could get cane syrup, jaggery, etc. or any other unrefined cane sugar product if you want it to be a little healthier too. But the healthiest thing to do would just be to limit the intake of any extra sugars, I think it's like 25-30g per day max recommended, which is about two tablespoons of either.

[Anonymous No.14119188]

>>14116444
Honey has less calories (315, sugar has 400) and on top of that you need less of it because it's sweeter. But honestly it's such a small difference you might just want to go with the one you like more

[Anonymous No.14119366]

>>14118960
go look at your agave ingredients.

[Anonymous No.14119548]

Look up low glycemic sugars. It's all still sugar but at least its 'healthier'. I like apple syrup and coconut palm sugar but there are many out there

>>14119014
stevia is okay if you find it in alcohol and not cut with fucking erythritol

[Anonymous No.14119651]

>>14119548
Could be worse, it could be methanol.
That methanol shit makes people go blind.

[Anonymous No.14119917]

>>14116444
Whats with all the diabeetus threads lately? A tablespoon of sugar is like 12 grams, what are you making, brownie sauce? Just fucking use sugar, fag.

[Anonymous No.14119926]

>>14116532
just get sugar-free sugar retard

[Anonymous No.14119949]

>>14119366
pic related, pure agave, costs around £3 a bottle. every supermarket stocks it.

[Anonymous No.14120180]

>>14119548
Glycemic index is a meme metric though
Of course, nutritional science is a bad field as well

[Anonymous No.14120197]

>>14116444
Barely, like 2 or 1% better than sugar