Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants
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 directly or indirectly. Many methods have been developed to detect honey adulterants including physicochemical analysis, microscopy, c...
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| author | Nailaa, Aishath Flint, Steve H. A. Z., Sulaiman Azilah, Ajit Weeds, Zuben |
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| description | 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 directly or indirectly. Many methods have been developed to detect honey adulterants including physicochemical analysis, microscopy, chromatography, immunoassay, thixotropicity, DNA metabarcoding, sensors, and spectroscopy. However, the most promising methods for the development of a portable test kit for honey adulterant detection are ELISA, electronic tongue, and NIR. The most sensitive and accurate method is NIR. These methods have shown satisfactory results when used individually or combined. Further research is still required to trial different combinations of methods to improve accuracy and the ability to detecting a wide variety of adulterants simultaneously. There is a need to develop a portable honey adulterant detection method, such as NIR spectroscopy using a smartphone. |
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| spelling | ump-226962019-01-16T03:39:30Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/22696/ Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants Nailaa, Aishath Flint, Steve H. A. Z., Sulaiman Azilah, Ajit Weeds, Zuben TP Chemical technology 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 directly or indirectly. Many methods have been developed to detect honey adulterants including physicochemical analysis, microscopy, chromatography, immunoassay, thixotropicity, DNA metabarcoding, sensors, and spectroscopy. However, the most promising methods for the development of a portable test kit for honey adulterant detection are ELISA, electronic tongue, and NIR. The most sensitive and accurate method is NIR. These methods have shown satisfactory results when used individually or combined. Further research is still required to trial different combinations of methods to improve accuracy and the ability to detecting a wide variety of adulterants simultaneously. There is a need to develop a portable honey adulterant detection method, such as NIR spectroscopy using a smartphone. Elsevier Ltd 2018-08 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/22696/1/Classical%20and%20novel%20approaches%20to%20the%20analysis%20of%20honey%20and%20detection%20of%20adulterants.pdf Nailaa, Aishath and Flint, Steve H. and A. Z., Sulaiman and Azilah, Ajit and Weeds, Zuben (2018) Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants. Food Control, 90. pp. 152-165. ISSN 0956-7135. (Published) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956713518300732 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.02.027 |
| spellingShingle | TP Chemical technology Nailaa, Aishath Flint, Steve H. A. Z., Sulaiman Azilah, Ajit Weeds, Zuben Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| title | Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| title_full | Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| title_fullStr | Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| title_short | Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| title_sort | classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants |
| topic | TP Chemical technology |
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