Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants

Food Control

Volumn 90, Issue , 2018, Pages 152-165

  Naila, Aishath ^a   Flint, Steve H ^b   Sulaiman, A Z ^c   Ajit, Azilah ^a   Weeds, Zuben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA KELANTAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adulterants; Electronic tongue; Honey; NIR spectroscopy; Portable honey adulterant kit; Smart phone; Stingless bee honey

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044473820     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.02.027     Document Type: Review

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