It is a natural food and a good source of quick energy. However, it is not, as many people would like to believe, a good source of vitamins, minerals and proteins. For example, a number of vitamins are found in honey but none of significant concentration. Vitamin C is often the most abundant vitamin, but a person who wished to use honey as a vitamin C source would have to consume 5.5 to 6 pounds of honey a day to obtain the minimum daily requirements. This is also true for minerals.
Honey has several important qualities in addition to composition and taste.
The low moisture content on honey is one of its most important characteristics as it influences keeping quality, rate of granulation and body. Care must be taken in the handling and storage of honey to be sure that this does not happen. The low moisture content of honey also forms an important part of the system which protects honey from attack by microorganisms. The high acidity of honey also plays an important role in the system which prevents bacterial growth. Finally, honey has an antibacterial of inhibine system.