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Differentiating Wild and Apiary Honey by Elemental Profiling: a Case Study from Mangroves of Indian Sundarban

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Honey is a natural substance produced by honeybees from the nectar or secretion of flowering plants. Along with the botanical and geographical origin, several environmental factors also play a major role in determining the characteristics of honey. The aim of this study is to determine and compare the elemental concentration of various macro and trace elements in apiary and wild honeys collected from different parts of Indian Sundarbans. The elemental analysis was performed in inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy preceded by microwave digestion method. The concentrations of 19 elements (Ag, Al, As, B, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Se and Zn) were investigated from thirteen locations of Indian Sundarbans. This comparative study shows in wild honey samples, the concentration of K was highest followed by Ca, Mg and Na and Zn was lowest among all. In contrast, in apiary honey samples, Ca had maximum concentration followed by K, Mg and Na and Ag had minimum among all. The elemental concentration in honey from apiary was either equal or higher than their wild counterpart. The results of the factor analysis of PCA algorithm for wild and apiary honey samples were highly variable which implies that the elements are not coming from the same origin. The concentration of element was found to be highly variable across sites and across sources of honey samples.

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The authors are thankful to the ICP-OES facility, UPE-Scheme of University of Calcutta and Bose Institute for providing financial and infrastructural support. The authors also extend their acknowledgement to the villagers and different organisations like Sundarban Green Environment Association, Universal Bee Club etc. for their continuous support.

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    Tanushree Gaine, Praveen Tudu, Somdeep Ghosh, Shouvik Mahanty, Madhurima Bakshi & Punarbasu Chaudhuri

  2. Department of Environmental Studies, New Alipore College, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700053, India

    Tanushree Gaine

  3. School of Environmental Studies, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700073, India

    Madhurima Bakshi

  4. Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700064, India

    Nabanita Naskar

  5. Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, 411008, India

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    Subarna Bhattacharya

  7. Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, 93/1 Acharya P. C. Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700009, India

    Swati Gupta Bhattacharya

  8. Department of Botany, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

    Kashinath Bhattacharya

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Conceptualization: T. G. (Tanushree Gaine), P. C. (Punarbasu Chaudhuri); methodology: T. G. (Tanushree Gaine), P. T. (Praveen Tudu), S. M. (Shouvik Mahanty), S. G. (Somdeep Ghosh), M. B. (Madhurima Bakshi), N. N. (Nabanita Naskar); formal analysis and investigation: T. G. (Tanushree Gaine), P. T. (Praveen Tudu), S. C. (Souparna Chakrabarty); writing—original draft preparation: T. G. (Tanushree Gaine); writing—review and editing: T. G. (Tanushree Gaine), P. T. (Praveen Tudu); funding acquisition: P. C. (Punarbasu Chaudhuri); resources: P. C. (Punarbasu Chaudhuri), S. B. (Subarna Bhattacharyya), S. G. B. (Swati Gupta Bhattacharya), K. B. (Kashinath Bhattacharya); supervision: P. C. (Punarbasu Chaudhuri).

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Gaine, T., Tudu, P., Ghosh, S. et al. Differentiating Wild and Apiary Honey by Elemental Profiling: a Case Study from Mangroves of Indian Sundarban. Biol Trace Elem Res 200, 4550–4569 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12011-021-03043-z

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