Abstract
This study aims to determine the physical quality characteristics of pure and impure honey bee Trigona. The material used in this research is pure honey and impure honey. This study consisted of 2 treatments with five replications where X1 (pure honey) and X2 (unpure honey). Parameters observed included soluble test, heating test, hexagon test, and ant test. Data analysis using t-test. Based on the results of the analysis of variance, it shows that each soluble test is X1 = 1.6 and X2 = 3.8, the heating test is X1 = 4.6 and X2 = 2.4, the hexagon test is X1 = 2 and X2 = 1, 8, the ant test is X1 = 3.2 and X2 = 4.2. The study results can be concluded that the effectiveness of the honey purity test using several simple methods that most meet the requirements are the soluble test method, the heating test method, and the ant test. In contrast, the hexagon test does not give a response at all.
Highlights
The bee of the Trigona genus comes from Asia, and this bee has a black color with a relatively smaller body size compared to the bees of the Apis genus
Honey is a good drug for health in the form of a sweet liquid resulting from the nectar collection by honey bees (Gebremariam & Barhane, 2014)
Pure honey is liquid flower nectar sucked by honey bees into the honey bag in their body (Andriani, 2011)
Summary
The bee of the Trigona genus comes from Asia, and this bee has a black color with a relatively smaller body size compared to the bees of the Apis genus. Honey is a thick natural sweetener produced by bees after consuming flower nectar and other sweet ingredients from plants. Pure honey is liquid flower nectar sucked by honey bees into the honey bag in their body (Andriani, 2011). Impure honey is honey that has been mixed with sugar and other original ingredients This impure honey is made without the help of bees or using sugar as nectar. This impure honey has the same color as pure honey. Some people have many methods of distinguishing pure honey and simple impure honey developed by word of mouth (Astuti, 2015; Wahyuni 2015). Further research is needed to distinguish pure honey from impure honey, and one can only use a simple method without passing laboratory tests. There are a lot of pure honey testing methods circulating among the public and have been trusted for generations to date
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