okay what the fuck is going on with honey

it has antimicrobial and other medicinal properties despite being literally sugar (ie microbe food)

it is almost chemically identical with hfcs but is healthy somehow

look at this shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Me

@urshanabi I dunno, that whole section reads like it's all folk medicine with limited backing from publication bias.
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@metanomial the antibiotic bit reads as solid, without looking too much into it

i would be unsurprised if the rest turned out to be fake but the antibiotic on its own is enough to confuse me

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