A test to detect cane-sugar-honey

P Vit

A test to detect cane-sugar-honey

Arch Latinoam Nutr. 1998 Mar;48(1):62-4.

Author

P Vit¹

Affiliation

¹ Departamento Ciencia de los Alimentos, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.

PMID: 9754408

Abstract

A manual procedure for simple detection of cane sugar honey is described in terms of a visual reaction of honey, water and diethyl ether mixtures. Analyses of 30 samples of genuine honey were contrasted with 30 samples of cane-sugar-honey from Venezuela, and discriminated correctly by the proposed method.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Food Contamination / analysis*
Honey / analysis*
Sucrose*
Venezuela

Substances

Sucrose