Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to,
as it is the type of honey collected by most beekeepers and consumed by people. Honey gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, and has about the same relative sweetness
as granulated sugar.It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor that leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners.
