3.2.1. Color

The honey color is dependent on their botanical origins, and it was significantly different among local honey (Table 3) and imported honey (Table 4) samples. The color ranged from white to dark amber for local honey, and extra white to dark amber for the imported honey. The Pfund scale ranged from 20 to 150 mm and 10 to 116 mm in local and imported honey, respectively (Tables 3 and 4). The mean value for the Pfund color (102.3 ± 5.1) of local honey was significantly different from the imported honey (72.7 ± 3.59) (Table 5). The Pfund color scale of local and imported honey was within the suggested range of the International Codex [9,10,23].


**Table 5.** Comparison among mean values of tested physicochemical properties of local and imported honey.

Asterisk represents a significant difference between local and imported honey for each single attribute (*p* < 0.05, *t*-test). Codex Alimentarius Standard (moisture: ≤20%, Pfund color: 0–150 mm; EC: ≤0.8 mS/cm; pH: 3.4–6.1; FA: ≤50 meq/kg; HMF: ≤40 mg/kg (in tropical regions: 80 mg/kg); DN: ≥8) [9,10].
