How will the right answer fit in terms of support and conclusion?

Only the right answer will be a conclusion supported by the passage.

Highlight the main conclusion in the passage, if there is one:

There is no conclusion in the passage. The right answer will be the conclusion.

[BACKGROUND], and [SUPPORT]. However, [SUPPORT], even though [BACKGROUND].

You won’t know for sure which parts of the passage are background and which are support until you’re working on the list of answer choices. So instead of dwelling on the passage, set your mind to eliminating answers that bring in something new or use wording stronger than the passage uses.

Map the wording of the answers to the wording of the passage:

(A) Some strains of honey…are unusually high in antioxidants.

Every word of this repeats back something that’s in the passage. You want to move on and start eliminating others before you spend a lot of brain power deciding if this totally makes sense.

That said, the “strains of honey” in this answer are the same ones in the “However” statement. If they’re “among the most healthful”, then based on the previous sentence we also know they’re “unusually high in antioxidants”. It all adds up.

(B) Most plants…

…are never mentioned. You eliminated this one immediately since you recognized that the passage gives zero information about “plants”.

(C) …tends to be more healthful…

We have no basis for making this comparison. The passage actually correlates “dark honey” with “the most healthful strains”, but even that doesn’t help tell you which one “tends to be more healthful” overall.

(D) …are unusually low in antioxidants.

The passage never mentions anything that’s “low in antioxidants”, so we have no support for making this conclusion.

(E) The strain of honey that has the antioxidant content…

…is never mentioned. No way you can make a super specific conclusion like that based only on the general info in the passage.

(A) is the correct answer.