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When Should Athletes Eat Honey?

Published Jul,08 2011  |  By Melissa Biscardi

Honey is a sweet and thick fluid honeybees produce from flower nectar. Your body easily absorbs honey. Honey is made up of approximately 70 to 80 percent sugar. The rest is made up of water, minerals and traces of protein, acids and other substances.

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