Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 135, Issue 3, Pages 1785-1788Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.06.057
Keywords
Mineral content; Honey; Flame atomic spectroscopy; Protected designation of origin
Funding
- Comunidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain)
- european funding from FEDER programme [Proyect S2009/AGR-1464, ANALYSIC-II]
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Honey attributes such as geographical origin or specified botanical sources often command a premium price due to their organoleptic or pharmacoactive properties. Miel de Granada is a highly quality product with protected designation of origin (PDO) which includes six monofloral honeys and two multifloral honeys. Our objective was the characterization of Miel de Granada according to their metal content. Metal content was specific enough and allowed discrimination from honeys of different botanical and geographical origins and confirmed the authenticity of PDO labelling as Granada product with the determination of only five elements (K, Na. Ca, Mg and Zn). Chemometric techniques as cluster analysis and ANOVA were used to classify honeys according to their botanical and geographical origin in the metal data. Metal content marks the differences in honey samples and can be used as a tool to assess the quality of honeys. ANOVA showed significant differences among rosemary honeys from different geographical areas despite the botanical factor weight. Our research contributes to the groundwork studies to determine the geographical origin of Spanish honeys. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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