A comprehensive review on the main honey authentication issues: Production and origin

S Soares, JS Amaral, MBPP Oliveira… - … Reviews in Food …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Honey is a highly consumed natural product, not only for its taste and nutritional value, but
also for its health benefits. Owing to characteristics that are essentially or exclusively related …

Honey authenticity: Analytical techniques, state of the art and challenges

AS Tsagkaris, GA Koulis, GP Danezis, I Martakos… - Rsc Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Honey is a high-value, globally consumed, food product featuring a high market price strictly
related to its origin. Moreover, honey origin has to be clearly stated on the label, and quality …

Detection techniques for adulterants in honey: Challenges and recent trends

KW Se, RA Wahab, SNS Yaacob… - Journal of Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
Honey is a nutritious natural sweetener from honey bee-collected nectar from a variety of
flowers. The health benefits and high value of honey, however, have motivated fraudulent …

Rapid quantification of honey adulteration by visible-near infrared spectroscopy combined with chemometrics

M Ferreiro-González, E Espada-Bellido… - Talanta, 2018 - Elsevier
Honey is a pure product for which the addition of any other substance is prohibited by
international regulations. Therefore, it is necessary to develop reliable analytical methods to …

Eucalyptus honey: Quality parameters, chemical composition and health-promoting properties

O Bobis, AR Moise, I Ballesteros, ES Reyes, SS Durán… - Food chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Systematic review of the characteristic markers in honey of various botanical, geographic, and entomological origins

X Wang, Y Chen, Y Hu, J Zhou, L Chen… - ACS Food Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Honey has become a highly demanded product for consumers worldwide due to its unique
taste and rich nutritional and medicinal values. However, it remains challenging to identify …

A paper-based optical tongue for characterization of Iranian honey: Identification of geographical/botanical origins and adulteration detection

S Masoomi, H Sharifi, B Hemmateenejad - Food Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the numerous uses of honey as a food ingredient and its therapeutic properties,
humans consume a lot of it. This study examines the differentiation between honey products …

Applications of emerging stable isotopes and elemental markers for geographical and varietal recognition of Romanian and French honeys

DA Magdas, F Guyon, R Puscas, A Vigouroux… - Food chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
The research towards the identification of new authenticity markers is crucial to fight against
fraudulent activities on honey, one of the top ten most falsified food commodities. This work …

Challenges and a step forward in honey classification based on Raman spectroscopy

DA Magdas, F Guyon, C Berghian-Grosan, CM Molnar - Food Control, 2021 - Elsevier
The potential of Raman spectroscopy for honey authenticity control purposes was
investigated with respect to its geographical and botanical origin. For this aim, authentic …

Characterization of Italian multifloral honeys on the basis of their mineral content and some typical quality parameters

ME Conti, S Canepari, MG Finoia, G Mele… - Journal of Food …, 2018 - Elsevier
The levels of 30 elements (Al, As, B, Ba, Be, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, P,
Pb, S, Sb, Se, Si, Sn, Sr, Ti, Tl, U, V, Zn) and some typical quality parameters were measured …