Composition of stingless bee honey: Setting quality standards

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dc.contributor.authorSouza, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorRoubik, David
dc.contributor.authorBarth, Ortrud
dc.contributor.authorHeard, Tim
dc.contributor.authorEnrÍquez, Eunice
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorVillas-Bôas, Jerônimo [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorMarchini, Luis
dc.contributor.authorLocatelli, Jean
dc.contributor.authorPersano-Oddo, Livia
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida-Muradian, Ligia
dc.contributor.authorBogdanov, SteFan
dc.contributor.authorVit, Patricia
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)
dc.contributor.institutionSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionInstituto Oswaldo Cruz
dc.contributor.institutionCSIRO
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionABENA/CEIPAC
dc.contributor.institutionIstituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria
dc.contributor.institutionSwiss Bee Research Centre
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidad de los Andes
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-27T11:22:20Z
dc.date.available2014-05-27T11:22:20Z
dc.date.issued2006-12-01
dc.description.abstractCompositional data from 152 stingless bee (Meliponini) honey samples were compiled from studies since 1964, and evaluated to propose a quality standard for this product. Since stingless bee honey has a different composition than Apis mellifera honey, some physicochemical parameters are presented according to stingless bee species. The entomological origin of the honey was known for 17 species of Meliponini from Brazil, one from Costa Rica, six from Mexico, 27 from Panama, one from Surinam, two from Trinidad & Tobago, and seven from Venezuela, most from the genus Melipona. The results varied as follows: moisture (19.9-41.9g/100g), pH (3.15-4.66), free acidity (5.9-109.0meq/Kg), ash (0.01-1.18g/100g), diastase activity (0.9-23.0DN), electrical conductivity (0.49-8.77mS/cm), HMF (0.4-78.4mg/Kg), invertase activity (19.8-90.1IU), nitrogen (14.34-144.00mg/100g), reducing sugars (58.0-75.7g/100g) and sucrose (1.1-4.8g/100g). Moisture content of stingless bee honey is generally higher than the 20% maximum established for A. mellifera honey. Guidelines for further contributions would help make the physicochemical database of meliponine honey more objective, in order to use such data to set quality standards. Pollen analysis should be directed towards the recognition of unifloral honeys produced by stingless bees, in order to obtain standard products from botanical species. A honey quality control campaign directed to both stingless beekeepers and stingless bee honey hunters is needed, as is harmonization of analytical methods. © 2007 Asociación Interciencia.en
dc.description.affiliationEscola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
dc.description.affiliationUSP, Piracicaba, SP, CEP 13418-900
dc.description.affiliationSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón
dc.description.affiliationInstituto Oswaldo Cruz
dc.description.affiliationCSIRO
dc.description.affiliationUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Cruz das Almas, BA
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP
dc.description.affiliationUSP
dc.description.affiliationABENA/CEIPAC, Criciúma, SC
dc.description.affiliationIstituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Roma
dc.description.affiliationSwiss Bee Research Centre, Liebefeld
dc.description.affiliationUniversidad de Los Andes
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP
dc.identifierhttp://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0378-18442006001200008&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en
dc.identifier.citationInterciencia, v. 31, n. 12, 2006.
dc.identifier.issn0378-1844
dc.identifier.scieloS0378-18442006001200008
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-33947396844
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/69400
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInterciencia
dc.relation.ispartofjcr0.258
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,183
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectHoney
dc.subjectPollen analysis
dc.subjectQuality criteria
dc.subjectStingless bee honey
dc.subjectApis mellifera
dc.subjectMelipona
dc.subjectMeliponinae
dc.titleComposition of stingless bee honey: Setting quality standardsen
dc.typeArtigo
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