Melissopalynological Characterization of  North Algerian Honeys

Nair, Samira; Meddah, B.; Aoues, Abdelkader

doi:10.3390/foods2010083

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“…Elsewhere, some authors reported Elaeis guineensis to be the dominant species in Guinean zone (Koudegnan et al, 2010). The pollen spectra recovered in our study on the honeys of the three geographical zones is different from those returned in some works achieved on plains and mountains honeys of the Northern Algeria (Benaziza-Bouchema et al, 2010; Makhloufi et al, 2010;Nair et al, 2013).…”

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Pollen Analysis of the Honeys Samples Produced in the Three Phyto-geographical Zones of Benin

Azonwade

Paraïso

Tossou

et al. 2017

ESJ

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The aim of this work was the melissopalynologycal analysis of the honey samples collected both during the dry and rainy seasons of the three phyto-geographical zones of Benin. The analysis was performed by conventional methods on 60 honeys samples. The total of 138 taxa have been identified at family level (31), genus level (20) and to the level species (87). The number of pollens counted varies according to the phyto-geographical zones. Thus, 17091 pollens have been counted in the samples of the Sudanian zone; 13884 in those of the Sudano-Guinean zone and 7960 pollens in those of the Guinean zone. The pollen content of the honey samples reflects the plant species of the three phyto-geographical zones. The most dominant plant taxa were Combretaceaes (26.01%) and Parkia biglobosa (10.67%) in Sudanian zone, Combretaceae (29.52%) in SudanoGuinean zone. In the Guinean zone, the dominant taxa were Zea mays (18.35%) and Terminalia (15.34%). The specific richness varies from 6 to 43 in the Sudanian zone, from 7 to 34 in the Sudano-Guinean zone and from 1 to 28 taxa in the Guinean zone. None of the density of the dominant pollens reached 45%, thus all the analyzed honeys are polyfloral.

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confidence: 99%

Pollen Analysis of the Honeys Samples Produced in the Three Phyto-geographical Zones of Benin

Azonwade

Paraïso

Tossou

et al. 2017

ESJ

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“…Property of honey is extricably connected with its origins and a number of environmental factors, so, it is very rare to get unifloral honeys. This study has confirmed that type of honey (pollen honey, mixed and honeydew) is substantially determined by vegetation and environmental condition, such as the state of climate and time of collection [29,30]. The criteria used to classify the testing honey was as following: (a) for the pollen (nectar) honey, the number of pollen grains ≥ 300, pH > 3.70, electrical conductivity < 0.8 mS/cm except for chesnut honey, then organoleptic properties; (b) for the mixed honey, the number of pollen grains ≥ 100 and ≤ 300, value of electical conductivity, organoleptic properties, then the honeydew elements presence (a great presence of spores and fungi, strach grains, etc.…”

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Determination of Rutin, Quercetin, Naringenin and Hesperetin in the Honey from Bosnia and Herzegovina (B & H) in Relation to the Composition of Pollen

Kurtagić¹,

Barudanović²,

Durmić³

2015

JESE-A

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Today, consumers and producers makes more and more requests for determining the type of honey and its variety because its technological and medicinal qualities depends on the origin. There are many factors which affect on the quality of honey, but the most important is geographical and botanical origin of which largely depends on its medicinal properties. There are several methods of dealing with the classification of honey but the most accurate is pollen analysis with some other tests, such as pH, electrical conductivity and sensory properties. Flavonoids-as one of the most important group of plant secondary metabolites, can be found in honey and its number and amount directly dependents of the origin of honey. In this study, 48 honey samples were tested, of which 29 were pollen honey, 11 were mixed and 8 were honeydew. In all samples, regardless of the type of honey, quercetin and naringenin are found, and rutin and hesperetin are found in-between 36%-50% of honey samples. The largest individual and avarages amounts of tested flavonoids are found in the pollen honey and at least in the mixed honeys.

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“…The pollen spectrum of the honey samples from Laghouat demonstrated 100 morphologically distinct pollen types related to 49 plant families (Table 2). The number of pollen types found in our study agrees with those found in honeys produced in Algeria, reported by Ghorab et al (2021) (with 96 pollen types), and different than those from others regions of Algeria cited by Nair et al (2013) and Makhloufi (2010) (with 36 and 124 pollen types, respectively). According to Herrero et al (2002), the pollen content varied highly with the type of honey but also depends on other factors such as the procedure used by the beekeeper to obtain the honey including the honey extraction from the combs, the filtering system or the type of hive used.…”

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Pollen Characterization of Polyfloral Honeys from Laghouat Region (Algeria)

2022

IJAB

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Honey is naturally produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants. It is widely consumed as a health food product all over the world. Melissopalynology plays an important role in ascertaining the botanical and geographical origins of honey by studying the pollen contained in the honey. The pollen content of 19 honey samples of Apis mellifera L. from the Laghouat region of Algeria was analyzed. 100 pollen types belong to 49 families were identified, of which the most diverse were Asteraceae (12 pollen types), Fabaceae (9), Apiaceae, Boraginaceae and Lamiaceae (5 pollen types each). Asteraceae and Fabaceae were present in all the samples, while, Apiaceae Nitrariaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Brassicaceae, and Oleaceae were identified in more than 84% of analysed honey samples. The number of pollen types identified per sample ranged between 13 and 27 (mean of 19.1). All honey samples were classified as a polyfloral honey. The best represented secondary pollen types were Peganum harmala, Centaurea sp., Trifolium sp., Eucalyptus sp., Euphorbia sp., Olea europaea, Echium sp., Onopordum arenarium, Lotus type and Cistus sp. For the quantitative analysis, the pollen content of the studied honey samples ranged from medium (class II, 57.9% of the samples) to high (class III, 42.1 % of the samples), where the pollen density ranged from 23 400 to 351 250 in 10 g of honey, with an average of 108 002 grains /10 g.

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Melissopalynological Characterization of North Algerian Honeys

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Pollen Analysis of the Honeys Samples Produced in the Three Phyto-geographical Zones of Benin

Pollen Analysis of the Honeys Samples Produced in the Three Phyto-geographical Zones of Benin

Determination of Rutin, Quercetin, Naringenin and Hesperetin in the Honey from Bosnia and Herzegovina (B & H) in Relation to the Composition of Pollen

Pollen Characterization of Polyfloral Honeys from Laghouat Region (Algeria)

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