Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics
Stingless bee honeys are appreciated in the world market due to their nutritional and biological properties. In Argentina, the most commercially exploited species of stingless bee is Tetragonisca fiebrigi whose honey is the only one of its kind incorporated into the Argentine Food Code. The value of...
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| author | Marcinkevicius, Karenina Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Salomon, Virginia María Vera, Nancy Roxana Maldonado, Luis Maria |
| author_browse | Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Maldonado, Luis Maria Marcinkevicius, Karenina Salomon, Virginia María Vera, Nancy Roxana |
| author_facet | Marcinkevicius, Karenina Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Salomon, Virginia María Vera, Nancy Roxana Maldonado, Luis Maria |
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| description | Stingless bee honeys are appreciated in the world market due to their nutritional and biological properties. In Argentina, the most commercially exploited species of stingless bee is Tetragonisca fiebrigi whose honey is the only one of its kind incorporated into the Argentine Food Code. The value of stingless bee honeys has been increasing in recent years, making them more prone to adulteration. However, there are no methodologies available to perform adequate controls to verify their authenticity. Therefore, the objective of this work was to develop and validate a UV–Vis spectroscopy and chemometric combined methodology to detect and quantify adulterations of Tetragonisca fiebrigi honeys produced in Argentina. The adulterants analyzed included Apis mellifera honey, three commercial sugar syrups (glucose, extra glucose, maltodex40) and three laboratory-formulated sugar syrups (sucrose, fructose and high fructose). The results showed that through principal component analysis it is possible to differentiate pure honey from adulterated honey. Through linear discriminant analysis and partial least squares regression, unknown mixtures could be classified by determining the degree of adulteration and identifying the type of adulterant used. The method allows detecting the addition of up to 64% of Apis mellifera honey, while the maximum amount of detectable added syrup varies between 51 and 70%, depending on the type of syrup. |
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| spelling | INTA221502025-05-05T10:45:24Z Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics Marcinkevicius, Karenina Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Salomon, Virginia María Vera, Nancy Roxana Maldonado, Luis Maria Melipona Honey Bees Ultraviolet Radiation Spectroscopy Abeja Melífera Radiación Ultravioleta Espectroscopia Argentina Abejas sin Aguijón Stingless Bees Stingless bee honeys are appreciated in the world market due to their nutritional and biological properties. In Argentina, the most commercially exploited species of stingless bee is Tetragonisca fiebrigi whose honey is the only one of its kind incorporated into the Argentine Food Code. The value of stingless bee honeys has been increasing in recent years, making them more prone to adulteration. However, there are no methodologies available to perform adequate controls to verify their authenticity. Therefore, the objective of this work was to develop and validate a UV–Vis spectroscopy and chemometric combined methodology to detect and quantify adulterations of Tetragonisca fiebrigi honeys produced in Argentina. The adulterants analyzed included Apis mellifera honey, three commercial sugar syrups (glucose, extra glucose, maltodex40) and three laboratory-formulated sugar syrups (sucrose, fructose and high fructose). The results showed that through principal component analysis it is possible to differentiate pure honey from adulterated honey. Through linear discriminant analysis and partial least squares regression, unknown mixtures could be classified by determining the degree of adulteration and identifying the type of adulterant used. The method allows detecting the addition of up to 64% of Apis mellifera honey, while the maximum amount of detectable added syrup varies between 51 and 70%, depending on the type of syrup. EEA Famaillá Fil: Marcinkevicius, Karenina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá; Argentina Fil: Gennari, Gerardo Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá; Argentina Fil: Salomon, Virginia María. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá; Argentina Fil: Vera, Nancy R. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Farmacoquímica; Argentina Fil: Maldonado, Luis Maria. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá; Argentina 2025-05-05T10:38:18Z 2025-05-05T10:38:18Z 2024-07 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22150 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11694-024-02653-0 2193-4126 2193-4134 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-024-02653-0 eng info:eu-repograntAgreement/INTA/PNAPI-1112043/AR./Estrategias para agregar valor a la producción apícola argentina. info:eu-repograntAgreement/INTA/2019-PE-E1-I017-001, Desarrollo del sector apícola organizado, sustentable y competitivo info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Springer Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization 18 : 7283-7294. (July 2024) |
| spellingShingle | Melipona Honey Bees Ultraviolet Radiation Spectroscopy Abeja Melífera Radiación Ultravioleta Espectroscopia Argentina Abejas sin Aguijón Stingless Bees Marcinkevicius, Karenina Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Salomon, Virginia María Vera, Nancy Roxana Maldonado, Luis Maria Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| title | Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| title_full | Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| title_fullStr | Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| title_short | Detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from Argentina using UV–Vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| title_sort | detection of adulterations in native stingless bees honey from argentina using uv vis spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics |
| topic | Melipona Honey Bees Ultraviolet Radiation Spectroscopy Abeja Melífera Radiación Ultravioleta Espectroscopia Argentina Abejas sin Aguijón Stingless Bees |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22150 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11694-024-02653-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-024-02653-0 |
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