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ReviewFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Modern Methods for Assessing the Quality of Bee Honey and Botanical Origin Identification.

Anna Puścion-Jakubik, Maria Halina Borawska, Katarzyna Socha

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Review in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna Puścion-JakubikDepartment of Bromatology, Medical University of Bialystok, Mickiewicza 2D St., 15-222 Białystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8526-8107
Maria Halina BorawskaDepartment of Bromatology, Medical University of Bialystok, Mickiewicza 2D St., 15-222 Białystok, Poland.
Katarzyna SochaDepartment of Bromatology, Medical University of Bialystok, Mickiewicza 2D St., 15-222 Białystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-5949-7061

Funding

Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku N/ST/MN/15/002/2216
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper is a summary of the latest literature on methods for assessing quality of natural bee honey. The publication briefly characterizes methods recommended by the International Honey Commission, published in 2009, as well as newer methods published in the last 10 years. Modern methods of assessing honey quality focus mainly on analyzing markers of individual varieties and classifying them into varieties, using, among others, near infrared spectroscopy techniques (NIR), potentiometric tongue, electronic nose, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), zymography, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA metabarcoding, and chemometric techniques including partial least squares (PLS), principal component analysis (PCA) and artificial neural networks (ANN). At the same time, effective techniques for analyzing adulteration, sugar, and water content, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), polyphenol content, and diastase activity are being sought. Modern techniques enable the results of honey quality testing to be obtained in a shorter time, using the principles of green chemistry, allowing, at the same time, for high precision and accuracy of determinations. These methods are constantly modified, so that the honey that is on sale is a product of high quality. Prospects for devising methods of honey quality assessment include the development of a fast and accurate alternative to the melissopalynological method as well as quick tests to detect adulteration.

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adulterationbee honeyquality assessmentvariety

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PMID32751938
PMCPMC7466300

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