Agave:
Agave is the food sweetener. It is a substitute for sugar. It is sweeter than sugar and more neutral flavor than honey.
Honey:
Honey is the sweetener made by the honeybees from nectar. The taste and flavor of the honey differs from the source of nectar used.
Differences:
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| Definition (www.oxforddictionaries.com) | A succulent plant with rosettes of narrow spiny leaves and tall flower spikes, native to the southern US and tropical America. | A sweet, sticky yellowish-brown fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers. |
| Synonyms | Bear grass, belladonna, dracaena, escarole, grass | Sweeten, yellow, pet, flame, treasure |
| Word origin | The word agave was originated from Latin, from Greek Agauē, the name of one of the daughters of Cadmus in Greek mythology, from agauos ‘illustrious’. | The word honey was originated from Old English hunig, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch honig and German Honig. |
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| Source | Nectar from the blue agave plant | Bees |
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