Honey volatiles as a fingerprint for botanical origin—a review on their occurrence on monofloral honeys

AM Machado, MG Miguel, M Vilas-Boas, AC Figueiredo - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Honeys have specific organoleptic characteristics, with nutritional and health benefits, being
highly appreciated by consumers, not only in food but also in the pharmaceutical and …

Honey as a complementary medicine

MG Miguel, MD Antunes… - Integrative medicine …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The beneficial effects of honey on human health have long been recognized. Today, many
of those positive effects have been studied to elucidate its mode of action. This review briefly …

Antioxidant activity, total phenolic content, individual phenolics and physicochemical parameters suitability for Romanian honey authentication

D Pauliuc, F Dranca, M Oroian - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
The present study aimed to evaluate the physicochemical characteristics of honey
(raspberry, mint, rape, sunflower, thyme and polyfloral) produced in Romania. The honey …

Detection of honey adulteration–The potential of UV-VIS and NIR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate analysis

D Valinger, L Longin, F Grbeš, M Benković, T Jurina… - Lwt, 2021 - Elsevier
Honey is usually adulterated by cheaper, commercially available sugar syrups with similar
chemical composition. Adulterated honeys are frequently marked as natural and are valued …

Honey authentication based on physicochemical parameters and phenolic compounds

M Oroian, S Ropciuc - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2017 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to assess the usefulness of physicochemical parameters (pH, water
activity, free acidity, refraction index, Brix, moisture content and ash content), color …

Honey adulteration detection using Raman spectroscopy

M Oroian, S Ropciuc, S Paduret - Food analytical methods, 2018 - Springer
In this study, the Raman spectroscopy was used to detect honey adulterated with fructose
(F), glucose (G), inverted sugar (IS), hydrolyzed inulin syrup (IN), and malt must (M). Thus …

[HTML][HTML] Honey botanical origin and honey-specific protein pattern: Characterization of some European honeys

CI Mureșan, M Cornea-Cipcigan, R Suharoschi… - Lwt, 2022 - Elsevier
Honey adulteration generates low quality products on the market. The study aimed to find a
simple, specific and less time-consuming method than standard melissopalynology only, for …

[HTML][HTML] Honey adulteration detection based on composition and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) parameters

F Dranca, S Ropciuc, D Pauliuc, M Oroian - LWT, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the most important issues regarding the quality of honey is its adulteration through
the addition of non-allowed substances. For this reason, this study aimed at assessing the …

Assessment of the botanical origin of polish honeys based on physicochemical properties and bioactive components with chemometric analysis

M Tarapatskyy, P Sowa, G Zaguła, M Dżugan… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Is it possible to characterize the types of honey based on their chemical composition, their
content of bioactive substances, and their physicochemical properties? The objective of this …

Establishing authenticity of honey via comprehensive Romanian honey analysis

EI Geana, CT Ciucure - Food chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Assessing the authenticity of honey is a serious problem that has gained much interest
internationally because honey has frequently been subject to various fraudulent practices …