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Chemistry and technology of honey production / Ettore Baglio.

9783319657516 (electronic book)
3319657518 (electronic book)
9783319657493
3319657496

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, [2018]

©2018

English

1 online resource (vi, 40 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

10.1007/978-3-319-65751-6 doi

TX560.H7 B34 2018e

638/.16
540

"This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective. It outlines why honey is a special and unique food, being produced by bees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants. Although glucose and fructose are the main constituents of honey, its overall composition is far from being simple or uniform: other substances such as organic acids, enzymes, or minerals are found in varying amounts. In this Brief, the author addresses the factors that influence the composition of the honey as well as the consequences that the composition has on properties such as color, crystallization, density, viscosity, or the refractive index. This Brief also introduces some of the most commonly used quality parameters for the determination of ageing and/or overheating: 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and diastase. Other recently proposed constituents for quality parameters are also mentioned, e.g. 1,2 dicarbonyl compounds (3 deoxyglucosone, methylglyoxal, glyoxal) and furosine, also named 2-furoylmethyl lysine."--Provided by publisher.

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SpringerBriefs in molecular science (electronic), 2191-5415
Chemistry of foods (electronic), 2199-7209
SpringerBriefs in molecular science. Chemistry of foods.

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