ISSN:
1750-3841
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
As a result of the analysis of 23 honeys deemed to include representatives of most of the honeys produced commercially in the United States, it appears that there apparently exists a qualitative relationship between degree of pigmentation as measured by the current practice of color-grading this food and the quantity of sulfur and chlorine which it contains. All available data on this phase of honey composition have been collected and collated. Although some measure of similarity in sulfur content exists between the honeys in question and those produced in the foreign countries included in this survey, such has not been found to hold true for chlorine. Honeys of European origins probably do not contain notably greater amounts of this element than do those grown in continental United States, but no such large chlorine content has been found as that reported by others for the honeys characteristic of the product of the Hawaiian Islands nor yet those from the West Indies, South America, and Australia. There is need, however, for more data on the honeys from the latter group of geographical units, except perhaps the Hawaiian Islands, because the number of samples here involved is small.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1938.tb17090.x
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