Food for thought

Local honey retails for about £15 a kilo so my bees will eat their way through about £600 worth of honey this winter. I don't mind - it's their honey and they did do all the work collecting the nectar and I'm grateful for any surplus. But some beekeepers take a more hard-nosed commercial view: If honey is worth £15 kilo and sugar only costs 90p kilo, why not take all the bees' honey and feed them sugar water instead?
Here's what is in honey:

• Sugars: Fructose, Glucose, Maltose, Sucrose and some other complex sugars
• Vitamins: Riboflavin (B2), Niacin (B3), Pantothenic acid (B5), B6, Folate (B9), Vitamin C
• Minerals: Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc
• Other anti-oxidants and organic acids
• Pollen and protein and amino acids
• Water

And this is what sugar water contains:

• Sugar (sucrose)
• Water

Which do you think is most nutritious for you? And for the bees?