The toxic impact of honey adulteration: A review

R Fakhlaei, J Selamat, A Khatib, AFA Razis, R Sukor… - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
Honey is characterized as a natural and raw foodstuff that can be consumed not only as a
sweetener but also as medicine due to its therapeutic impact on human health. It is prone to …

Recent advancements in detecting sugar-based adulterants in honey–A challenge

L Wu, B Du, Y Vander Heyden, L Chen, L Zhao… - TrAC Trends in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Honey is a natural sweetening agent widely used in food products and as a daily diet
ingredient, but it also has medicinal properties. An increase in the demand for honey has …

Verification of authenticity and fraud detection in South African honey using NIR spectroscopy

A Guelpa, F Marini, A du Plessis, R Slabbert, M Manley - Food Control, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The South African honey industry will benefit from a reliable method that can verify
authenticity as well as detect fraudulence of honey that is on the market. This work presents …

Untargeted headspace gas chromatography–Ion mobility spectrometry analysis for detection of adulterated honey

N Arroyo-Manzanares, M García-Nicolás, A Castell… - Talanta, 2019 - Elsevier
The recognized properties of honey together with its price have, almost inevitably, led to
economically motivated adulteration. In this work, headspace gas chromatography coupled …

Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants

A Naila, SH Flint, AZ Sulaiman, A Ajit, Z Weeds - Food Control, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Authenticity determination of honeys with non-extractable proteins by means of elemental analyzer (EA) and liquid chromatography (LC) coupled to isotope ratio mass …

H Dong, K Xiao, Y Xian, Y Wu - Food Chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The present work aims to systematically demonstrate the authenticity of honeys with non-
extractable proteins for the first time, by means of EA-IRMS and LC-IRMS. Fifty-three pure …

Recent advances in analytical techniques for the detection of adulteration and authenticity of bee products–A review

Z Wang, P Ren, Y Wu, Q He - Food Additives & Contaminants: Part …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Bee products have been considered as functional foods for a long time in China because of
their wide range of biological activity. China has the largest number of bee colonies and the …

A screening method based on Visible-NIR spectroscopy for the identification and quantification of different adulterants in high-quality honey

MJ Aliaño-González, M Ferreiro-González… - Talanta, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract According to European Union regulations, honey is a pure product and adding to or
removing from it any kind of substance is illegal. Nevertheless, its adulteration by adding …

Analytical rheology of honey: A state-of-the-art review

C Faustino, L Pinheiro - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Honey has been used as a nutraceutical product since ancient times due to its nutritional
and medicinal properties. Honey rheology influences its organoleptic properties and is …

The importance of testing the quality and authenticity of food products: the example of honey

N Żak, A Wilczyńska - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to review methods of honey testing in the assessment of its quality
and authenticity. The quality of honey, like other food products, is multidimensional. This …