The Physicochemical Parameters, Phenolic Content, and Antioxidant Activity of Honey from Stingless Bees and Apis mellifera: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Ana Karen Zaldivar-Ortega, Antonio de Jesús Cenobio-Galindo, Nuria Morfin, Gabriel Aguirre-Álvarez, Rafael G Campos-Montiel, Nuria Esturau-Escofet, Angel Garduño-García, Juan Carlos Angeles-Hernandez, Josipa Vlainić, Ivana Tlak Gajger · 2024
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Ana Karen Zaldivar-Ortega and co-authors compare two kinds of honey across the published evidence in a 2024 review. Honey from the familiar honeybee dominates markets, while stingless bees produce a less known honey with a different profile. Buyers and regulators need to know how they actually differ.
Pooling studies with standard meta-analysis methods, the team found stingless bee honey richer in plant phenols and stronger in one antioxidant test. Its makeup also differed: wetter, more acidic, and lower in a heat-damage marker. The honeybee honey's average phenol content sat near sixty-one milligrams per hundred grams, with the stingless type higher by about thirty-four. Wide variation between studies tempered the conclusions, and follow-up analysis explored why results scattered. The work gives producers and food scientists a firmer basis for grading the two honeys.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ana Karen Zaldivar-Ortega, Antonio de Jesús Cenobio-Galindo, Nuria Morfin, Gabriel Aguirre-Álvarez, Rafael G Campos-Montiel, Nuria Esturau-Escofet, Angel Garduño-García, Juan Carlos Angeles-Hernandez, Josipa Vlainić, Ivana Tlak Gajger |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |