How can sugar act like a food preservative when it’s said to attract bacteria?

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How can sugar act like a food preservative when it’s said to attract bacteria?

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You need very, very, very high concentrations of sugar.

And it works due to osmosis.

Osmosis is a process where water is naturally draw from areas of high concentration to low concentration.

So if you put bacteria, a little cell full of water it needs, into a very high sugar concentration like honey, all that sugar actually pulls the water out of the bacteria, killing it.

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