Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar
from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the
genus, Apis) is the one most commonly referred to and
is the type of honey collected by beekeepers. Flavors
of honey vary based on the nectar source, and various
types and grades of honey are available (11, 12). As
with all nutritive sweeteners, honey is mostly sugars
and contains only trace amounts of vitamins or
minerals. Honey also contains tiny amounts of several
compounds thought to function as antioxidants,
including chrysin, pinobanksin, vitamin C, catalase,
and pinocembrin. The specific composition of any
batch of honey depends on the flowers available to the
bees that produced the honey (13)