Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador

Honey is one of the oldest sweetening foods and has economic importance, making this product attractive to adulteration with cheap sugars. This can cause a critical problem in the honey industry and a possible health risk. The present work has the aim of evaluating the authenticity of honey commerci...

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Autores principales: Salvador, Lorena, Guijarro, Michelle, Rubio, Daniela, Aucatoma, Bolívar, Guillén, Tanya, Vargas Jentzsch, Paul, Ciobotă, Valerian, Stolker, Linda, Ulic, Sonia Elizabeth, Vásquez, Luis, Garrido, Patricia, Bravo, Juana, Ramos Guerrero, Luis
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/107730
http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC6462972&blobtype=pdf
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topic Química
Honey
Adulteration
Raman spectroscopy
Infrared spectroscopy
Chemometric
spellingShingle Química
Honey
Adulteration
Raman spectroscopy
Infrared spectroscopy
Chemometric
Salvador, Lorena
Guijarro, Michelle
Rubio, Daniela
Aucatoma, Bolívar
Guillén, Tanya
Vargas Jentzsch, Paul
Ciobotă, Valerian
Stolker, Linda
Ulic, Sonia Elizabeth
Vásquez, Luis
Garrido, Patricia
Bravo, Juana
Ramos Guerrero, Luis
Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
topic_facet Química
Honey
Adulteration
Raman spectroscopy
Infrared spectroscopy
Chemometric
description Honey is one of the oldest sweetening foods and has economic importance, making this product attractive to adulteration with cheap sugars. This can cause a critical problem in the honey industry and a possible health risk. The present work has the aim of evaluating the authenticity of honey commercialized in two different provinces of Ecuador (Pichincha and Loja) by performing physicochemical and spectroscopic analyses. For this study 25 samples were collected from different places and markets and characterized by water, sucrose, reducing sugars and electric conductivity measurement. Also, their Raman and Infrared (IR) spectra were recorded and analysed using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in order to verify the quality of the honeys. In addition, a screening of several pesticides was performed in order to verify possible chemical threats to human health and honey bees. It was found that 8 samples have a deviation from the Standard established parameters. Two of them have a high difference in the content of sucrose and reducing sugars, which are located deviated from all the other samples in the PCA of the applied vibrational spectroscopy (IR/Raman), shaping two clear clusters. The results show that Raman and IR spectroscopy is appropriate techniques for the quality control of honey and correlates well with the physicochemical analyses.
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Articulo
author Salvador, Lorena
Guijarro, Michelle
Rubio, Daniela
Aucatoma, Bolívar
Guillén, Tanya
Vargas Jentzsch, Paul
Ciobotă, Valerian
Stolker, Linda
Ulic, Sonia Elizabeth
Vásquez, Luis
Garrido, Patricia
Bravo, Juana
Ramos Guerrero, Luis
author_facet Salvador, Lorena
Guijarro, Michelle
Rubio, Daniela
Aucatoma, Bolívar
Guillén, Tanya
Vargas Jentzsch, Paul
Ciobotă, Valerian
Stolker, Linda
Ulic, Sonia Elizabeth
Vásquez, Luis
Garrido, Patricia
Bravo, Juana
Ramos Guerrero, Luis
author_sort Salvador, Lorena
title Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
title_short Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
title_full Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
title_fullStr Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed Exploratory Monitoring of the Quality and Authenticity of Commercial Honey in Ecuador
title_sort exploratory monitoring of the quality and authenticity of commercial honey in ecuador
publishDate 2019
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/107730
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