Fructose in a food matrix, like maple syrup or honey, may preserve nitric oxide precursors, especially darker, less processed forms.

“raw organic honey especially darker raw organic honey has nitric oxide precursors when you give this to humans in an interventional manner you can see increased nitric oxide metabolites in the urine and in the blood”

“so i do not think that it is worth it i do not think it is correct to fear fructose in the food matrix but a lot of people ask me what about maple syrup well think about it honey is better the more rod is the darker it is the less processed it is because the more you heat the honey the more you degrade those nitric oxide precursors the more you degrade the chemicals that are probably involved in the process of preserving enos activity maple syrup is collected and heated and heated and heated maple”

“honey when it's raw but it's not processed much actual real honey as opposed to amber colored high fructose corn syrup can behave very differently in the human body possibly because of maybe the way it's bound in the honey we know that honey has prebiotics perhaps the fructose even in the honey is getting released more slowly and there are nitric oxide precursors in honey”