Honey contains nitric oxide metabolites and increases nitric oxide production, differentiating it from sucrose and Coca-Cola.

“honey contains nitric oxide metabolites and it increases nitric oxide production in various biological fluids what you mean honey a complex real food found in nature is more than just sucrose yes it is and this is what i think is fascinating that we cannot be reductionist in our thinking with regard to foods we cannot conflate honey with sucrose honey is not the same as coca-cola not in human models and not in animal models”

“there are compounds in honey that actually increase nitric oxide in the human plasma so i thought that was quite fascinating and there are a lot of connections between nitric oxide metabolism endothelial health and insulin resistance or metabolic health and so and certainly in mice and i believe in humans when you feed a human honey there's a different metabolic response than when if you feed a human sucrose or processed cane sugar”

“humans have never been exposed to sucrose which is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose in a sweet beverage they've been exposed to honey which is a little some sucrose some fructose some glucose in this gelatinous matrix with about 300 other chemicals and prebiotics like all these other things in there some things that affect the gut flora things or nitric oxide precursors so it's a completely different piece of information for humans”

“foods in the whole food form have more information we see this with honey like you can give someone honey and they have increased nitric oxide precursors in their urine and the endothelium function gets better if the honey is good and then if you give somebody sugar which many people would say oh honey's just processed sugar all those things go the opposite direction”

“unprocessed sugars like those found in fruit or honey there's tons of evidence these are good for humans and we know that things like orange juice containing fruit sugar or cherry juice or grape juice these improve endothelial function these improve the function of Our arteries honey has actually been studied in diabetics and found to improve insulin sensitivity”