Honey + Coffee anyone?

[cartisdm]

I happened to receive a large quart jar of honey from a friend who owns some local hives. My allergies are really bad this year and I always hear people say local honey can cure it. I don't really use honey so I thought of just using it to replace my sugar. Turns out....tastes great! My friend's honey isn't super strong so I really don't taste it much in the coffee but there are some subtle hints.

Anyone else?

 

[Deemancpa]

Dude....I ate honey by the jar from a local in Texas. It appears you have to eat it over time - years.....I received shots which helped...I'm a big coffee guy....never thought of coffee and honey.......d

 

[cartisdm]

Dude....I ate honey by the jar from a local in Texas. It appears you have to eat it over time - years.....I received shots which helped...I'm a big coffee guy....never thought of coffee and honey.......d

I may start using it more often to replace sugar. I usually have the Sugar In The Raw stuff, but I don't actually know if it's any better for me than processed stuff. My guess is it's gotta be at least somewhat healthier. Still, there are lots of different types of honey available cheap and just a few blocks over at the farmer's market. I bet I could come up with some great tasting coffee/honey combinations in no time.

 

[nodollas]

Some would have us believe (the corn syrup people) that sugar is sugar and our bodies can't tell the difference. I call bull$hit on that.... Honey is all natural and tasty too! I use it as a sugar substitute in or on lots of things.

 

[vivalanation734]

Raw honey in coffee is great

 

[smokinghole]

I may start using it more often to replace sugar. I usually have the Sugar In The Raw stuff, but I don't actually know if it's any better for me than processed stuff. My guess is it's gotta be at least somewhat healthier. Still, there are lots of different types of honey available cheap and just a few blocks over at the farmer's market. I bet I could come up with some great tasting coffee/honey combinations in no time.

I'm a believer in not so much the product but the refining level of said product. I use honey as well as other partially refined sugars. Partially refined would be jaggery or pinconillo sugars which are just cane juice or palm juice boiled down. The other commerical raw sugars are still centrifuged to remove a lot of the molasses I think but not bleached like white table sugar.

Either way my opinion on foodstuff is the less refining the better. So honey is better than sugar in the raw because I bet your friend probably just filters hive pieces out of the honey. Honey is mostly fructose (levulose on this Honey page) where bagged sugar is mostly sucrose. There isn't a serious nutritional difference between sucrose and fructose that I know of it's more of a chemical structure difference.