Now that I’m homebound, I’ve been experimenting with more ingredients than ever before. I mean—what else is there to do but to make jars upon jars of homemade salad dressing and smoothies using every condiment in your fridge like some manic mad scientist? That’s when I decided to get nerdy about what I was actually using most frequently—both honey and agave. The fact that I had been using them interchangeably might not have been the appropriate culinary protocol given at how different they are. Let’s take a look at the ways in which they differ.
As trendy as high-quality honey has become, you won’t see any vegan influencers posting about it any time soon. “Some vegans consider honey non-vegan because it's produced from the labor of bees,” says Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, dietitian-nutritionist and healthy eating expert. “They believe that exploiting the labor of bees and then harvesting their energy source is immoral. They also believe that the practices of large-scale beekeeping operations can harm or kill the bees.”
