On Food and Cooking

%   by  weight

Water 17

Fructose 38

Glucose 31

Sucrose 1.5

Other   disaccharides 7

Higher  sugars 1.5

Acids 0.6

Minerals 0.2

Honey in Cooking Unlike sugar, which is
often a hidden ingredient in processed foods,
honey is a very visible sweetener; most of it is
added to foods by individual consumers. With
its syrup-like viscosity, glossiness, and range
of brown shades, it makes an attractive
topping for pastries and other foods. It is the
characteristic sweetener in such pastries as
baklava and lebkuchen, such confections as
nougat and torrone, halvah and pasteli, and in