Geographical discrimination of honeys by using mineral composition and common chemical quality parameters

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 157-165

  González Paramás, Ana M ^a   Gómez Bárez, J Alfonso ^a   Garcia Villanova, Rafael J ^a   Rivas Paĺa, Teresa ^a   Ardanuy Albajar, Ramón ^a   Sánchez Sánchez, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Honey geographical origin; Honey legal physicochemical parameters; Honey mineral composition; Linear discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HONEY; MINERAL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

EID: 0343049183     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0010(20000101)80:1<157::AID-JSFA506>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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