【英语时差8,16】最悠久的甜味剂（上）

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Honey has been around for a very long time. Cave paintings in Spain from over ten thousand years ago show people harvesting honey. Today honey is mostly used for its distinctive¹ flavor, but for baking it has another advantage as well: baked goods made with honey take longer to get stale. Honey helps baked goods stay fresh longer because, unlike common table sugar, honey is made of two so-called “simple” sugars: glucose² and fructose. Table sugar also has glucose and fructose, but they’re chemically bonded³ together in a double sugar called “sucrose.” Having two single sugars instead of one double sugar means that ounce-for-ounce honey contains more sugar molecules⁴, which is why honey is also a little sweeter than table sugar.