The potential of near infrared spectroscopy(NIR)as a nondestructive method for determining the principle components of honeys was studied for 153 unifloralhoneys and multifloralh honey samples. Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy(FT-NIR), CCD near-infrared spectroscopy and PDA near-infrared spectroscopy were evaluated to quantitatively determine water content, fructose content and glucose content in honey. On the basis of partial-leasts quare(PLS)regression, the models of honey were compared. The best calibration model gives the correlation coefficients of 0.9785, 0.9311 and 0.8907 for water, fructose and glucose, respectively, with the root means quare error of prediction(RMSEP)of 0.4108(%), 1.91448(%) and 2.5319(%) respectively. The results demonstrated that near-infrared spectrometry is avaluable, rapid and nondestructive tool for the quantitative analysis of the principle components in honey.