I suspect that labelling of sugar content only refers to the glucose, fructose and sucrose contents of honey. There are at least 12 disaccharides in honey in addition to fructose and glucose – sucrose, maltose, isomaltose, nigerose, turanose, maltulose, leucrose, kojibiose, neotrehalase, gentiobiose, laminaribiose and isomaltulose. My guess is this is where the extra carbs are from.
Here’s an interesting story about someone who went without artificial light for a month and fell into a bimodal sleep pattern
Friday I felt really drained, even though I’d had a reasonable amount of sleep and eaten as much as I wanted of low glycemic and fairly high-fat food.
Towards the end of the day I had a piece of Texas sheet cake (white flour, sugar, Crisco, and applesauce). The world snapped into focus, and a friend said it was the first time she’d seen my eyes open all day.
RE: Evolution and sugar. Glucose can provide a temporary substitute for rest in that it can help restore executive functioning for people that are cognitively fatigued. Since hunting can be a high vigilance activity, and therefore one that can fatigue executive functioning this suggests one possibility.
Either way, our taste for sweetness must serve some evolutionary purpsose in terms of the doses someone woudl get from fruit and honey ingestion
Chuck Says: In Honey’s Unknown Benefits By Lindsey Duncan, he states…” The natural sugar found in honey raises our insulin cosa è localmilfselfies slightly and allows tryptophan, the compound famous for making us sleepy after eating turkey at Thanksgiving, to enter our brains more easily.”
Chuck, supposedly insulin pushes tryptophan into the brain, which becomes serotinin which becomes melatonin and melatonin moderates insulin which is why eating sugar before bed doesn’t cause blood sugar swings or fat gain. Continue reading “Darrin yes that is the honey I was referring to”