Abstract
Abstract Honey has different physical and chemical properties because it is produced from the nectar of plants. The present work had the objective of analyzing laboratory tests on honey bee Melipona subnitida D. from Ceara, in comparing them with other honeys from the Northeast Region, making it possible to know better the standards of these honeys, in order to verify their suitability to the Brazilian legislation and contribute to a future more appropriate and specific legislation for the honey of the native bees, since the existing legislation only addresses bee products from Apis mellifera L. Studies were correlated with Fiehe/hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in addition to pH/acidity, Lund, lugol, moisture, ash, soluble solids (°Brix) and coloring. For the moisture test there’s a 100% failure rate to the standards established by current Brazilian legislation, 38.46% in relation to the acid test and 29.03% for HMF. Inadequacies to the legislation occur due to the different floral origins and edaphoclimatic factors. However, the most relevant factor is the difference between the bees’ species Apis mellifera L. and Melipona subnitida D. that originate the honeys, each species conferring specific characteristics to its product.
Highlights
According to Brasil (2000) and Baltrušaitytė et al (2007, p. 502-503), honey is the product of flower nectar bees, secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of sucking insects that are in plants
We evaluated other physicochemical characterizations that are not found in the legislation, but are fundamental to guarantee the quality of this bee product, such as: pH, Lund, Lugol, soluble solids
It is of great importance the study of the honey characterization of native stingless bees, Melipona subnitida D., in order to create edaphoclimatic and floristic patterns of the regions, due to their peculiar physicochemical characteristics and little known, since it has a different chemical composition
Summary
According to Brasil (2000) and Baltrušaitytė et al (2007, p. 502-503), honey is the product of flower nectar bees, secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of sucking insects that are in plants. 502-503), honey is the product of flower nectar bees, secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of sucking insects that are in plants. The rational breeding of bees is an activity in which good economic, ecological and social results can be obtained. This activity, developed over time by small and medium producers, has aroused the interest of many Brazilian creators and institutions. There are two main production lines: Beekeeping and Meliponiculture. Within Beekeeping, knowledge about honey has been studied in several regions of Brazil, but in Meliponiculture, these studies are more recent, being developed with regional bees (Rodrigues et al, 2005)
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