Quality Parameters of Bulgarian Kinds of Bee Honey

Abstract More than 3600 varieties of higher plants are found in Bulgaria, which is a good predisposition for the production of different types of bee honey. In the country 11 natural and 3 national parks were registered, where many different kinds of plants can be found, some of them unique in the world. Up till now, more than 11 types of bee honey have been harvested and investigated. The aim of this work was, based on the data from available literature to provide a summary of the scientific information related to the main types of bee honey in Bulgaria from 2000 to the present. In the study, we present quality parameters from organically produced and commercially processed bee honeys: pollen analysis, proline content, invertase activity, specific optical rotation, electrical conductivity, antioxidant and antibacterial activities.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Macedonian Veterinary Review

• Publication date

  2014-03-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.14432/j.macvetrev.2014.01.007
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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