In the face of rising population, food insecurity is emerging as a global challenge. Nutritious
sources of food are frantically being searched for and so far underutilized food candidates …

Background Though honey has long been used as medicine, there is a scarcity of
knowledge on how it interacts with the body. Scope and approach While different types of …

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 …

Eucalyptus honey is an important unifloral honey commercialized worldwide and much
desired by consumers due to the medicinal properties attributed to it because of the plant …

In the honeybee, Apis mellifera, the queen larvae are fed with a diet exclusively composed
of royal jelly (RJ), a secretion of the hypopharyngeal gland of young worker bees that nurse …

Honey is an extract of floral and secretions from a variety of bees. Some honey
manufactures adulterate pure honey with industrial sugar, chemicals, and water either …

The fundamental feature of “active honeys” is the presence and concentration of
antibacterial compounds. Currently identified compounds and factors have been described …

Honey is one of the most popular natural sweet substances. From a chemical point of view, it
could be defined as a natural food mainly composed of sugars and water together with …

Although nectar is consumed, primarily as a supplemental food, by a broad range of insects
spanning at least five orders, it is processed and stored by only a small number of species …

Proteolytic activity is fundamental to survival, so it is not surprising that all living organisms
have proteases, especially seine protease. This enzyme in its numerous isoforms and …