Honey is primarily fructose and glucose.
Honey /ˈhʌni/ is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey collected by most beekeepers and consumed by people. Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. Honey Chemical Formula: Glucose Fructose Description Viscous yellow liquid. Uses Honey is primarily fructose and glucose in that order, with a little sucrose (about 1%), and less than 10% other sugars, and about 17% water. The low water content is important to many of honey's properties. Sucrose is what we refer to as a disaccharide; it actually consists of two different simpler sugars, glucose and fructose, joined together. In the bee’s honey stomach, the sucrose molecules are gradually split by the enzymes into glucose and fructose. Chemical Composition of Honey. Carbohydrates Unsurprisingly, these comprise the major portion of honey-about 82%. The carbohydrates present are the monosaccharides fructose (38.2%) and glucose (31%); and disaccharides (~9%) sucrose, maltose, isomaltose, maltulose, turanose and kojibiose. Carbohydrates: Sugars are the main ingredient in honey. They comprise almost 95% of honey's dry weight. There are 2 monosaccharides (the most basic form of carbohydrate) that make up honey: Fructose and Glucose. There is one more carbohydrate found in honey called Sucrose. The healing properties of honey were demonstrated in a study comparing honey treatment to that of silver sulfadiazine, the standard treatment, for burn victims. The results show that honey treatments result in a much greater sterility of the wounds, a faster rate of healing, and a faster onset of healing.
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