Honeybee Products: Analysis, Authenticity and Health Impact
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 June 2023) | Viewed by 16805
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; food authentication; food packaging; fermented foods; natural antioxidants
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: honey; bee products; melissopalynology; antioxidant properties; honey rheology; honey volatiles; honey markers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Honey is a sweet, nutritious, and stable food produced by honeybees. The best known primary products of beekeeping are honey and wax, but pollen, propolis, royal jelly, venom, bees, and their larvae are also marketable primary bee products. Traditionally, honey is considered the most significant beekeeping product. Wax has played a considerable role in only a few parts of the world, and propolis is even less known. However, with increasing knowledge about beekeeping, and an awareness of the beneficial aspects of many bee products, and the use and demand for other products, is increasing rapidly. The inclusion of "natural" bee products in cosmetics, medicines, and foods has improved consumer appeal. Although such an appeal is not always based on scientific evidence, more and more studies confirm at least some of the traditionally claimed benefits of the primary bee products. The current honey fraud problem has global implications and impacts both the price of honey and the viability of many beekeeping operations.
In this Special Issue, we aim at collecting and publishing innovative research and review papers on the: i) characterization of honeybee products, ii) honey and honeybee products authenticity, iii) honey and honeybee products consumption and health benefits, and iv) honey and honeybee products adulteration.
Dr. Ioannis Konstantinos Karabagias
Dr. Gulzar Ahmad Nayik
Prof. Dr. Vikas Nanda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- honey
- honeybee products
- physicochemical analysis
- botanical and geographical origin
- honey and honeybee products authenticity
- honey and honeybee products adulteration
- health benefits
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