Is raw honey bad?

Sugar is sugar and as long as you don't have a medical condition that requires monitoring it, you can ignore it. Sugar is a carb, so you already track it. I replaced sugar for fiber in my diary because I go well over every day.

That's not exactly true. The molecular structure are the same correct, but how the body processes them is different.

It all turns to glucose at the end of the day.

Yes, but when you're a diabetic that is not all that matters. I'm not saying refined sugar is bad, people can choose what they want. But in whole fruit, the sugars are bound up with fiber that slows the absorption of sugar from the intestines and this reduces the rise in blood sugar when you eat it. Fruits are also loaded with antioxidants that help prevent the inflammation that causes insulin resistance. Small amounts of sugar are stored as glycogen in your muscles and liver for future use, but then all left-over sugar is converted to triglycerides, fats that block insulin receptors and cause blood sugar levels to rise even higher. How a body processes the different sugars is important and not as simple as Bad Sugar vs Good sugar debate.

If you are not diabetic, then none of it matters. :flowerforyou:

Not this again. Sure it matters. In purely sugar for sugar, perhaps not, as far as your body going 'Oh, honey" or "oh table sugar!" and burning it. For other things contained in it it, it surely matters, based on what goals people have with their nutrition and how they want to parcel it.

People say "eat whatever you want" but then when you say "I only want to eat snickers" they go "That's ridiculous! You can't eat ONLY snickers!" so it's clear it DOES matter.

I'm a bee keeper, so I eat a lot of raw honey. Take that raw vs. pasteurized honey comparison chart with a BIG grain of salt. Raw honey is not necessarily "cloudy and viscous" nor is it necessarily better tasting etc. You can get some badly extracted funky nasty raw honey depending on the processor and the nectar flow the girls (bees) were into when they made it. Those are just the most obvious problems with that chart - there are also some problems with the health claims. Again, I love my raw honey and hope you'll support local raw honey producers, but I wouldn't take that list as the end-all, be-all for doing so.

This. The chart is a bunch of unproven nonsense claims and probably from a naturopathic site.
I buy raw honey from the local apiary 10 kg. at a time and it is clear and pourable. There may be a few bee parts still in it but is is beautifully clear.

I'm a bee keeper, so I eat a lot of raw honey. Take that raw vs. pasteurized honey comparison chart with a BIG grain of salt. Raw honey is not necessarily "cloudy and viscous" nor is it necessarily better tasting etc. You can get some badly extracted funky nasty raw honey depending on the processor and the nectar flow the girls (bees) were into when they made it. Those are just the most obvious problems with that chart - there are also some problems with the health claims. Again, I love my raw honey and hope you'll support local raw honey producers, but I wouldn't take that list as the end-all, be-all for doing so.

This. The chart is a bunch of unproven nonsense claims and probably from a naturopathic site.
I buy raw honey from the local apiary 10 kg. at a time and it is clear and pourable. There may be a few bee parts still in it but is is beautifully clear.

Yup my lady is 1km away from my front door........local honey makes it special. :happy:

It makes the mead really special :drinker: