Botany origin and protein content of homemade honeys from Galicia hives (NW Spain)

  • Judith Rodríguez-Castiñeira Departamento de Bioloxía Vexetal e Ciencia do Solo, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, España
  • Sandra Armesto-Baztán Departamento de Bioloxía Vexetal e Ciencia do Solo, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, España
  • Mª Pilar de Sá-Otero Departamento de Bioloxía Vexetal e Ciencia do Solo, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, España
Keywords: pollen pattern, protein wealth, pollen wealth, Rhamnus frangula, unifloral.

Abstract

The botanic origin and the protein content of 15 honeys from small bee farms exploitations of Galicia, for family consume, were studied; the aim is to check if the protein wealth and the pollen wealth are dependent parameters. Seven honeys resulted to be Rhamnus frangula unifloral (pollen patterns with low diversity), two Castanea sativa Miller unifloral, other one heather unifloral, and five was multifloral honeys of various pollen patterns (four Castanea predominant and one Rhamnus frangula predominant). Their pollen wealth was low; eight honeys classified in the Maurizio Class I, 3 in Class II, 2 in Class III, and one in Maurizio Class IV. There has been a wide variability in its protein content (0.09- 4.83 mg prot./g honey). The relative amount of pollen from different taxa has a direct or inverse proportionality to wealth protein.

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Published
2015-05-14
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Rodríguez-Castiñeira J., Armesto-Baztán S. y de Sá-Otero M. P. (2015). Botany origin and protein content of homemade honeys from Galicia hives (NW Spain). Botanica Complutensis, 39, 105-114. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_BOCM.2015.v39.49139
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