Medical
“Honey works differently from antibiotics, which attack the bacteria’s cell wall or inhibit intracellular metabolic pathways. Honey is hygroscopic, meaning it draws moisture out of the environment and thus dehydrates bacteria.” This happens because honey is a saturated (or supersaturated) solution of sugars, with 84 percent of the honey being a mixture of fructose and glucose. The water content in honey is usually only 15–21 percent by weight. The strong interaction of these sugar molecules with water molecules leaves very few of the water molecules available to support the survival—let alone growth—of microorganisms.