| Title: | Buckwheat honeys: screening of composition and properties |
| Author(s): | Pasini F; Gardini S; Marcazzan GL; Caboni MF; |
| Address: | "Department of Agro Food Science, University of Bologna, Piazza Goidanich 60, 47521 Cesena (FC), Italy. federica.pasini5@unibo.it" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.05.102 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1873-7072 (Electronic) 0308-8146 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The quality of 10 buckwheat honeys, collected from Italian and est European beekeepers declaring to produce monofloral honey, were evaluated by means of their pollen, physicochemical, phenolic and volatile composition data. The results of the traditional analyses and in particular electrical conductivity, optical rotation, pH and sugar composition revealed some poorly pure samples that could not fit in the buckwheat tipology. Honey volatiles, analysed by solid phase microextraction (SPME) and gas chromatography-mass-spectrometry (GC/MS), showed more than 100 volatile compounds, most of them present in all honey samples but with quantitative variation. Besides many furfural derivates, 3-methylbutanoic acid was the main volatile compound found in most of honeys. Also the presence of 2- and 3-methylbutanal and pheynalcetaldehyde confirmed the typical buckwheat aroma of some studied samples, corroborating physicochemical data. The HPLC phenolic profile was similar across the samples and p-hydroxybenzoic and p-coumaric acids proved to be the main components" |
| Keywords: | "Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid Fagopyrum/*chemistry Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Honey/*analysis Phenols/*analysis Pollen/chemistry Solid Phase Microextraction Volatile Organic Compounds/*chemistry/isolation & purification Buckwheat honey Gc;" |
| Notes: | "MedlinePasini, Federica Gardini, Silvia Marcazzan, Gian Luigi Caboni, Maria Fiorenza eng England 2013/07/23 Food Chem. 2013 Dec 1; 141(3):2802-11. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.05.102. Epub 2013 Jun 1" |
