Authentication and Detection of Honey Adulteration
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food chemistry; food authentication; food analysis; analysis of contaminants in foods; analytical aspects of food packaging; non thermal methods of food preservation
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Dear Colleagues,
In both the EU and the US the demand exceeds the amount of honey available, making honey the third most adulterated food item on the market. Honey can be potentially adulterated with various cheaper ingredients such as beet sugar, dextrose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, inverted sugar, maple syrup, molasses, rice syrup, sugar syrup, water etc. resulting in higher commercial profits. Thus, honey authentication and detection of honey adulteration have evolved as major challenges within the scientific community as well as in the marketplace.
Analytical methods to determine honey authenticity and to detect honey adulteration include chromatography, mass spectroscopy (MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), chromatography coupled to Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-IRMS), vibrational (near-infrared, mid-infrared and Raman) spectroscopy, calorimetric methods (DSC), and Stable Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis (SCIRA).
A thorough updated review of both standard and the most used as well as novel analytical methods for the analysis of honey will be presented in the proposed special issue making an effort to include the work of well established researchers working on the above subjects from around the world.
Prof. Michael G. Kontominas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Honey authentication
- Honey adulteration
- Chromatographic
- Spectroscopic
- Conventional physicochemical analysis
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