Not all sugars are created equal.

Put raw honey on your breakfast, mix it in your beverages and now you may as well drizzle it on your dessert. We’re beekeepers and gardeners, not doctors.

We’ve long understood and underestimated the health benefits of honey. A new study out of the University of Toronto confirms research suggesting raw honey contains sugars with beneficial compounds. Raw honey consumed in oral form (aka eaten) has the ability to “reduce fasting glucose, total cholesterol, LDL-C, fasting triglycerides, and ALT and increased HDL-C, IL-6, and TNF-α,” as concluded in the article published by the academics at Nutrition Reviews.

Basically, raw honey can lower bad cholesterol (LDL-C) and increase the good (HDL-C), amongst other suggested benefits, when taken regularly. In this case, about two tablespoons (40 g), used as a sweetener and therefore suggesting that replacing an added sugar with honey may have those benefits.

This new research provides even more insight and context to previous research on the health benefits of raw honey with more research needed on the exact benefits specific to floral honey. At Garden Supply Company, we carefully select areas for our bees to roam and harvest the natural nectar our local plants provide. Wildflower honey is our signature, raw, unfiltered, local honey; One of many.

We sell our own local honey flavors including but not limited to (and subject to availability):

• Wildflower honey
• Clover honey
• Sourwood Honey
• Clary Sage honey
• CBD-infused honey
• Bourbon-infused honey (our local honey infused with bourbon)
• Hot honey (our local honey infused with Benny-T’s Vesta)

Check out our Host-a-Hive and main Beekeeping pages for more on the local beekeeping efforts, community events and range of services provided here at Garden Supply Company.