ABSTRACT

Honey is sweetening agent which gets its sweetness from various sugars like monosaccharides, fructose and glucose. It has sweetness like as sugar or sucrose. Only 15 ml or 1 spoon of honey provides about 190 kilojoules or 146 kilocalories of food energy. Honey is collected by killer bees from two different sources, these are Nectar and honeydew. Nectar is a sweet liquid or Golden syrup that bees collect from various flowers to make honey Where Honeydew is a sweet, sticky substance, excreted, by aphids and deposit on leaves and stems of plants. Nectar is a cheapest source of honey global but In European countries such as Austria & Greece honeydew is usual only. Nectar contain high amount of fructose, glucose and sucrose.it is a concentrated sugar solution, which is secreted by flower nectary. Most nectar comprises mainly of fructose and glucose. Its sugar concentration in reality be influenced by on the different climate factors such as humidity, temperature and type of soil. According to a research a honeybee produce only one tablespoon honey in its complete life span. It is not a famous sweetener, it is similarly used as a medicine from our olden days. Due to its various importance it is used in higher amount world widely. In now days, the expand demand of honey in market leads to adulteration of honey and synthetic honey production. Another reason for adulteration of honey, its preparation is chief andeasy and the seller seek high profit from this kind of honey, where natural honey production and collection required to pay high cost and less profit in it sells. Keywords: Honey, sweetening agent, Nectar, Honeydew, adulteration, kilocalories, food energy
Publication date: 01/03/2025

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2025/14.3.8773