External application of honey is recommended for wound healing and it's research work has been also published.
Sugar in wounds works like caramel syrups.
Once it's stagnant, it fixes over there and molds the finger/organ.
Internally,
Sugars are having glucose compounds whereas honey is having 90% sucrose. So it doesn't increase blood sugar level. Also they are mono sacaride chains with haxagonal bonds.
Sugar is a compound product from sugar can.
Where honey is a natural product saturated by natural bioactive creatures. That makes it more reliable.
Refined sugar are processed under high pressure and temperature and it's not easy to digest due to its high melting points. That makes it to get stored inside body just like a Vish dravya and it forms aamvish in very near future.
Increasing cases of diabetic n metabolic syndromes might b results of ths.