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Review
. 2023 Aug 28:19:100850.
doi: 10.1016/j.fochx.2023.100850. eCollection 2023 Oct 30.

A comprehensive review of the current trends and recent advancements on the authenticity of honey

Xiao-Hua Zhang  1   2 , Hui-Wen Gu  3 , Ren-Jun Liu  4 , Xiang-Dong Qing  5 , Jin-Fang Nie  4
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Review

A comprehensive review of the current trends and recent advancements on the authenticity of honey

Xiao-Hua Zhang et al. Food Chem X. .

Abstract

The authenticity of honey currently poses challenges to food quality control, thus requiring continuous modernization and improvement of related analytical methodologies. This review provides a comprehensively overview of honey authenticity challenges and related analytical methods. Firstly, direct and indirect methods of honey adulteration were described in detail, commenting the existing challenges in current detection methods and market supervision approaches. As an important part, the integrated metabolomic workflow involving sample processing procedures, instrumental analysis techniques, and chemometric tools in honey authenticity studies were discussed, with a focus on their advantages, disadvantages, and scopes. Among them, various improved microscale extraction methods, combined with hyphenated instrumental analysis techniques and chemometric data processing tools, have broad application potential in honey authenticity research. The future of honey authenticity determination will involve the use of simplified and portable methods, which will enable on-site rapid detection and transfer detection technologies from the laboratory to the industry.

Keywords: Analytical methods; Authenticity; Chemometrics; Honey; Sample extraction techniques.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Fig. 1
Schematic representation of the main adulteration methods related to honey.
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Various extraction techniques applied in the quality control of honey. SPME: solid-phase microextraction, dSPE: dispersive solid-phase extraction, µSPE: micro-solid phase extraction, HS-SPME: headspace solid-phase microextraction, ATPS: aqueous two-phase extraction, LLME: liquid–liquid microextraction, ILS: ionic liquids, DLLME: dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction, MAE: microwave-assisted extraction, UAE: ultrasound-assisted extraction, MEPS: microextraction by packed sorbent, SBSE: stir bar sorptive extraction, M−CC: multi-column chromatography, MM-CC: mixed-mode column chromatography, SM-CC: surface-modified column chromatography.
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Fig. 3
An overview flowchart of the chemometrics-based methods for the honey authenticity verification.
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