Characterization of Coffea arabica monofloral honey from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Kadri, Samir Moura; Zaluski, Rodrigo; Lima, Giuseppina Pace Pereira; Mazzafera, Paulo; Orsi, Ricardo de Oliveira

doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.02.074

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“…Despite the lack of standardized legal frameworks for quality assessment, honey produced by eusocial bees of the genus Melipona is a product that has shown increasing demand, and even attracted higher prices than the honey produced by bees of the genus Apis mellifera (Alves et al, 2005), due to its peculiar flavor, nutritional value, and therapeutic properties (Silva et al, 2013a;Kumul et al, 2015;Kadri et al, 2016).…”

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Screening for quality indicators and phenolic compounds of biotechnological interest in honey samples from six species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Honey from stingless bees of the genus Melipona is a well sought product. Nevertheless lack of legal frameworks for quality assessment complicates the evaluation of food safety and marketing of these products. Seeking to assess the quality of honey from the bees of this genus, physical and chemical analyses, identification of phenolic compounds, and microbiological evaluation from six species of stingless bees was performed. The honey samples showed high reducing sugars, low protein levels and a balanced microbiota. High total phenols and flavonoids and higher antioxidant activity were also recorded. Different phenolic compounds of great biotechnological potential were identified and of these apigenin, kaempferol and luteolin were identified for the first time in honey. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the few works describing a detail characterization of melipona honey together with identification of the phenolic compounds of significant therapeutic value.Keywords: honey; chromatography; flavonoids; phenols; antioxidants; stingless bees; pollen types.Practical Application: This is one of the few works that describe the characterization of honey from seven species of stingless bees together detailing the identification of phenolic compounds of significant therapeutic value, which can serve as an important reference for future studies.

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Screening for quality indicators and phenolic compounds of biotechnological interest in honey samples from six species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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“…The moisture, free acid, amylase, hydroxymethylfurfural, fructose, glucose, sucrose, and ash contents of the Xinjiang safflower honey samples were determined by the method specified in CODEX STAN 12-1981. Melissopalynology was applied to analyze the botanical origin of the pollens in the safflower honeys, following pervious published method [ 32 ]. The typical pollen grain in a safflower honey sample was shown in the Figure S1 .…”

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Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Honey Extract

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SHI

Zhang

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Safflower honey is a unique type of monofloral honey collected from the nectar of Carthamus tinctorius L. in the Apis mellifera colonies of northwestern China. Scant information is available regarding its chemical composition and biological activities. Here, for the first time, we investigated this honey’s chemical composition and evaluated its in vitro antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Basic physicochemical parameters of the safflower honey samples in comparison to established quality standards suggested that safflower honeys presented a good level of quality. The in vitro antioxidant tests showed that extract from Carthamus tinctorius L. honey (ECH) effectively scavenged DPPH and ABTS+ free radicals. In lipopolysaccharides (LPS) activated murine macrophages inflammatory model, ECH treatment to the cells inhibited the release of nitric oxide and down-regulated the expressions of inflammatory-relating genes (iNOS, IL-1β, TNF-α and MCP-1). The expressions of the antioxidant genes TXNRD, HO-1, and NQO-1, were significantly boosted in a concentration-dependent manner. ECH decreased the phosphorylation of IκBα and inhibited the nuclear entry of the NF-κB-p65 protein, in LPS-stimulated Raw 264.7 cells, accompany with the increased expressions of Nrf-2 and HO-1, suggesting that ECH achieved the anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting NF-κB signal transduction and boosting the antioxidant system via activating Nrf-2/HO-1 signaling. These results, taken together, indicated that safflower honey has great potential into developing as a high-quality agriproduct.

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“…Unifloral honey has a pollen spectrum where one species is predominant; that is, it accounts for more than 45% of the pollen grains in the honey (Maurizio and Hodges 1951;Louveaux et al 1978;Anklam 1998;Von Der Ohe et al 2004). Unifloral honeys have, in general, greater commercial value than heterofloral honeys because they possess specific physicochemical and organoleptic characteristics, and specific tastes and flavors (Oddo et al 1995;Anklam 1998;Terrab et al 2014;Makhloufi et al 2015;Fagúndez 2016;Kadri et al 2016;Tette et al 2017).…”

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“…Unifloral honeys originate in environments that experience mass flowering of a single melliferous plant species. This can occur in non-natural environments such as monoculture plantations of rapeseed (Brassica napus L., Brassicaceae), sunflowers (Helianthus annuus L., Asteraceae), lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill., Lamiaceae), orange (Citrus spp., Rutaceae), eucalypt (Eucalyptus spp., Myrtaceae), among others (Louveaux and Vergeron 1964;Louveaux et al 1978;Goplen 1980;Moar 1985;Oddo et al 1995;Bryant Jr and Jones 2001;Nedic et al 2013;Consonni and Cagliani 2015;Makhloufi et al 2015;Fagúndez 2016;Kadri et al 2016;).…”

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Discriminating unifloral honey from a dioecious mass flowering tree of Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forest through pollen spectra: consequences of honeybee preference for staminate flowers

Calaça¹,

Schlindwein²,

Bastos³

2018

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Myracrodruon urundeuva (Baroeira^) is a dioecious tree of the seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) of Brazil and source of a unique unifloral honey. To discriminate this honey by its pollen spectra, we compared melissopalynological analysis of reference honey samples with those of other samples collected in the SDTF belt. Reference honeys had on average 99% of aroeira pollen, while the other honey samples averaged 84% of this pollen. We used the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, applied here for the first time in honey analysis, for determining the cut-off value of at least 93% of Myracrodruon pollen in a sample for classifying unifloral aroeira honey. The over-representation of aroeira pollen in this honey reflects that honeybees visited ten times as many staminate flowers as pistillate flowers. We conclude that unifloral aroeira honey has uniform pollen spectra, as a byproduct of the preference of honeybees for staminate flowers.Myracrodruon urundeuva / receivers operating characteristic (ROC) curve / melissopalynology / Apis mellifera Corresponding author: C. Schlindwein,

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Characterization of Coffea arabica monofloral honey from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Cited by 30 publications

References 33 publications

Screening for quality indicators and phenolic compounds of biotechnological interest in honey samples from six species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Screening for quality indicators and phenolic compounds of biotechnological interest in honey samples from six species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Honey Extract

Discriminating unifloral honey from a dioecious mass flowering tree of Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forest through pollen spectra: consequences of honeybee preference for staminate flowers

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