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Discrimination of honeys produced by Tanzanian stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) based on physicochemical properties and sugar profiles

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023
Honey composition vary according to floral origin and bee species from which it is produced. Understanding the composition of honey is essential for guaranteeing its quality and authenticity, and revealing its potential benefits.
Christopher Alphonce Mduda, Juma Mahmud Hussein, Masoud Hadi Muruke   +2 more
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Towards developing a marketing model for strategic positioning of stingless bee honey farming as a sustainable income for the rural community

, 2022
Due to its wide economic applications and low initial costs, stingless bee farming has a high potential to be developed as an economic empowerment program for the low income community in the rural area.
Hussin, Siti Rahayu, Kassim, Salina
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Unique physicochemical properties and rare reducing sugar trehalulose mandate new international regulation for stingless bee honey

, 2021
Stingless bee honey (SBH) of four stingless bee species (Heterotrigona itama, Geniotrigona thoracica, Tetragonula carbonaria, and Tetragonula hockingsi) from two geographic regions (Malaysia and Australia, n=36) were studied for their physicochemical ...
Hungerford, Natasha L., S. A. Yates, Hans, Fletcher, Mary T, Farrell, Madeleine, Yates, Hans SA, Webber, Dennis C., Zawawi, Norhasnida, Hungerford, Natasha L, Webber, Dennis C, Fletcher, Mary T., Tinggi, Ujang, Zhang, Jiali, Bhandari, Bhesh   +12 more
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Deep Divergence and Genomic Diversification of Gut Symbionts of Neotropical Stingless Bees

mBio, 2023
Social bees harbor conserved gut microbiotas that may have been acquired in a common ancestor of social bees and subsequently codiversified with their hosts.
Garance Sarton-Lohéac, Carlos Gustavo Nunes da Silva, Florent Mazel, Gilles Baud, Vincent de Bakker, Sudip Das, Yassine El Chazli, Kirsten Ellegaard, Marc Garcia-Garcera, Natasha Glover, Joanito Liberti, Lorena Nacif Marçal, Aiswarya Prasad, Vincent Somerville, Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Philipp Engel   +15 more
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Antioxidant-Based Medicinal Properties of Stingless Bee Products: Recent Progress and Future Directions

Biomolecules, 2020
Stingless bees are a type of honey producers that commonly live in tropical countries. Their use for honey is being abandoned due to its limited production.
Mohammad A. I. Al-Hatamleh, Jennifer C. Boer, Kirsty L. Wilson, Magdalena Plebanski, Rohimah Mohamud, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa   +5 more
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Analysing stingless bee garden design for urban farming in Kelantan, Malaysia [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
The benefits of stingless bee honey for health found in various studies increase the demand for these apiculture activities to grow. However, the production of stingless bee honey requires specific garden design considerations according to the species ...
Wan Mohamad Wan Saiful Nizam, Hasan Ramly, Hassan Khalilah, Abdul Hamid Nor Hamizah, Ramlee Noorliyana, Yeo Lee Bak, Othmani Nurul Izzati, Mohamed Syahidah Amni, Mohamed Som Sahrudin   +8 more
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Composition of stingless bee honey: Setting quality standards

, 2006
Compositional data from 152 stingless bee (Meliponini) honey samples were compiled from studies since 1964, and evaluated to propose a quality standard for this product.
Barth, Ortrud, Vit, Patricia, Carvalho, Carlos, Almeida-Muradian, Ligia, Villas-Bôas, Jerônimo [UNESP], Heard, Tim, Bogdanov, SteFan, EnrÍquez, Eunice, Marchini, Luis, Souza, Bruno, Locatelli, Jean, Persano-Oddo, Livia, Roubik, David   +12 more
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A Comparative Characterization of Physicochemical and Antioxidants Properties of Processed Heterotrigona itama Honey from Different Origins and Classification by Chemometrics Analysis

Molecules, 2019
Stingless bee honey produced by Heterotrigona itama from different botanical origins was characterised and discriminated. Three types of stingless bee honey collected from acacia, gelam, and starfruit nectars were analyzed and compared with Apis ...
Sharina Shamsudin, Jinap Selamat, Maimunah Sanny, Shamsul Bahari A.R., Nuzul Noorahya Jambari, Alfi Khatib   +5 more
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Reinventing the Honey Industry: Opportunities of the Stingless Bee

Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2018
Honey is uniquely produced by honeybees (Apis sp.) and stingless bees (Meliponini sp.) and exhibits tremendous medicinal properties such as antimicrobial, anticarcinogen and antioxidant. However, it has not been included as a mainstream approach to disease management and has been disregarded in the modern pharmaceutical era. The stingless bee, which is
Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli, Yaacob, Nik Soriani, Sulaiman, Siti Amrah   +2 more
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Chemical profiling, biological properties and environmental contaminants of stingless bee honey and propolis [PDF]

, 2023
Stingless bee honey is a unique edible natural product and has been used by humankind for millenniums for various purposes, mostly as food and for therapeutic uses.
Rafeah, Wahi, Zainab, Ngaini, Hasnain, Hussain, Saba, Farooq, Easter Sirah, Kelabo   +4 more
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