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Nutritional Composition and Medical Properties of Honey from Stingless Bees

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  • Rosane Gomes de Oliveira

    (Department of Projects and Research, University Center of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

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Honey of stingless bees of the genus Melipona is a product that may contain numerous medicinal properties. Most honey studies describe the physicochemical and microbiological composition, and report that there is antioxidant capacity related to phenolic compounds, however, the medicinal properties of honey are associated with specific phenolic compounds, which need to be identified to that such properties are described. The identifying these compounds are of extreme importance in describing beneficial health properties and each sample of honey may exhibit different variations and different phenolic compounds because the composition of these phenolics in stingless bee honey depends on the geographical location, type of plant that the bee collected the nectar , storage, climate, temperature, species of bee.

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  • Rosane Gomes de Oliveira, 2018. "Nutritional Composition and Medical Properties of Honey from Stingless Bees," Nutrition & Food Science International Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 7(2), pages 42-43, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jnfsij:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:42-43
    DOI: 10.19081/NFSIJ.2018.07.555707
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