Researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois believe honey may play an important role in providing antioxidants in a highly palatable form. Antioxidants are compounds found in cells that 'mop up' free radicals, the damaging byproducts of normal metabolism. These plant nutrients may help prevent illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Since fruits and vegetables are an especially potent source of antioxidants, the Illinois team speculated that honey, which originates in plant nectar, might also contain high levels of the nutrients. Honey from bees fed on Illinois buckwheat flowers had 20 times the antioxidant content of honey from bees fed on California sage.
Honey is truly one of the best natural sweeteners, for the taste and for the nutritional value.
Of course diabetics and those suffering with candida should avoid it, but for the rest of the population honey should be the choice sweetener.