Numerous honeybee (Apis mellifera) products, such as honey, propolis, and bee venom, are
used in traditional medicine to prevent illness and promote healing. Therefore, this insect …

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 …

Chemical characterization of bee pollen is of great importance for its quality estimation.
Multifloral and unifloral bee pollen samples collected from continental, mountain and …

The adulteration of honey (Apis mellifera) is a global problem due to its economic,
commercial and health implications. The world's leading beekeeping organisation …

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in connection with chemometric analysis
were used as a fast and direct approach to classify spray dried honey powder compositions …

Five types of honey (multifloral, sunflower, linden, rapeseed, and acacia), from Southern
Romania, were classified using chemometrics methods coupled with IR spectroscopy. The …

Honey is a natural product that could be easily adulterated with various cheaper
sweeteners. In the present study, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass …

Honey, due to its high demand, is a target for food fraud by adulteration (ie, the addition of
foreign sugars or syrups) or mislabeling of its botanical or geographical origins. Current …

The present study aimed at solving industrial problems of hygroscopicity and adhesion of
freeze-dried crisp-texture blueberries without adversely affecting the other properties. CO 2 …

The 4000–400 cm− 1 spectral information obtained by FTIR-ATR for bee pollen samples of
different floral origin from various Romanian counties were used to formulate a method for …