I accidentally did a scientific experiment. Repeated this experiment multiple times, with same result, so I think there's something to it.
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Bought really expensive manuka honey with that "magical" natural medicinal ingredient, methylglyoxal (MGO).
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Bought really cheap honey that says its 100% honey but…
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To my surprise and very unexpectedly, every time, no matter where I put the manuka honey in the kitchen, no matter which cupboard, or however high up I put it, these tiny little ants would find it. Meanwhile, no matter where I put the cheap honey, even if I put the cheap honey right next to the manuka honey, the ants completely ignore it. The cheap honey can sit there for weeks on end without an ant bothering to touch it. But after just a day or two of the manuka honey being out, they somehow find it.
I don't hat these ants. They're actually tiny ones and sort of cute. What is interesting to me is that even though the cheap honey tastes sweet to my taste, the ants have no interest, but they're so keen on the expensive manuka honey. I don't know what it is that attracts them so much to the expensive honey, nor what this ingredient might actually do for us medicinally, if anything, but it sort of suggests to me that the ants know that one honey is garbage (not good food) and the other honey is really nutritious.
Just thought I'd share in case Dan is wondering whether he should buy the expensive honey or not.