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Sensory Evaluation of Stingless Bee Pot-Honey

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Sensory analysis uses the five human senses to evaluate products like stingless bee pot honey. The sensory characteristics of pot honey are presented and discussed, and comparisons between honeys produced by the bees in combs or in pots are considered, as well as the sensory evaluation of fermented honey. Sensory results based on descriptive techniques suggest that new odor–aroma families are needed, and to describe such a product. Preliminary data on acceptance of pot honey produced by different species are shown. The free-choice profile (FCP) method helped to group honeys according to their entomological origin, by untrained panels.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the great generosity of stingless bee keepers who provided the pot-honey used in the sensory tests. To Dr. Tim Heard from CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia for providing honey from Tetragonula carbonaria, and for its identification. To Dr. Urbelinda Ferrufino, from Asociación Ecológica de Oriente, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for providing Scaptotrigona polysticta honey. To Mr. Fini Opa Carrasquel from Asociación Cooperativa de Meliponicultores Warime, Paria Grande, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela, for the honey of Melipona aff. fuscopilosa and the Tetragona clavipes honeys. To MSc. Jerônimo Khan Villas-Boâs collaborator of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, for providing the honey of Melipona scutellaris, and Scaptotrigona polysticta from João Pessoa and Xingú, Brazil. The honey of Melipona fasciculata was received from Prof. Murilo Sergio Drummond, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil. We also thank Mr. José Reyes from the Tosepan Titaniske Cooperative, Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexico, for providing honey of Scaptotrigona mexicana; Mrs. Liliana Castro from Mujeres Juntas Enfrentando Retos, Guerrero, Mexico, for the three honey samples of Melipona fasciata guerreroensis, Scaptotrigona hellwegeri, and Frieseomelitta nigra; Mr. Emmanuel Pérez de León and Mr. Ramiro García Farfán from the Soconusco group, Chiapas, México, for providing honey of Melipona solani and Melipona beecheii, respectively. Honey of Melipona favosa was collected by Prof. Patricia Vit, and the bee was identified by Prof. João MF Camargo. Scaptotrigona polysticta was kindly identified by Dr. Silvia RM Pedro from the Biology Department, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brasil. Both Camargo and Pedro identified the M. fuscopilosa and Tetragona clavipes from Venezuela. The Mexican bees were identified by Prof. Ricardo Ayala from Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico. Finally, we would like to thank the Intercambio Científico, Universidad de Los Andes for a stage at Universidad de Burgos, Spain (with Prof. María Teresa Sancho). We thank Endeavour Awards from Australia for a Research Fellowship at The University of Sydney (with Prof. Fazlul Huq) to P Vit, anonymous reviewers who kindly improved the manuscript, and Dr. DW Roubik for his careful English style editing.

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  1. Embrapa Agroindústria de Alimentos, Av. das Américas, 29501, CEP 23.020—470, Rio de Janeiro—RJ, Brazil

    Rosires Deliza

  2. Apitherapy and Bioactivity, Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuel

    Patricia Vit

  3. Cancer Research Group, Discipline of Biomedical Science, The University of Sydney, Cumberland Campus C42, 75 East Street, Lidcombe, NSW, 1825, Australia

    Patricia Vit

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Deliza, R., Vit, P. (2013). Sensory Evaluation of Stingless Bee Pot-Honey. In: Vit, P., Pedro, S., Roubik, D. (eds) Pot-Honey. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4960-7_24

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