How a huottuja (Piaroa) community perceives genuine and false honey from the Venezuelan Amazon, by free-choice profile sensory method

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 786-792

  Vit, Patricia ^a   Deliza, Rosires ^b   Pérez, Alfonso ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b EMBRAPA AGROINDÚSTRIA DE ALIMENTOS   (Brazil)

^c Asociación Cooperativa de Meliponicultores Warime   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Apis; Free choice profile; Honey; Huottuja; Meliponini sensory analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMMUNITY; CONSUMER; FLAVOR; FOREST; HONEY; HONEYBEE; MELIPONA FUSCOPILOSA; NONHUMAN; ODOR; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TASTE; TETRAGONA CLAVIPES; VENEZUELA; VISCOSITY;

EID: 80053444786     PISSN: 0102695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-695X2011005000115     Document Type: Article

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