RESEARCH ARTICLES

Volume 8 |Issue 2| March-April 2020                                 First published: 28 April 2020

Exploration of nutritional information in some honeys of commercial brands- and Apis dorsata in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State in India

Paliwal Gopal1*, Paliwal Sunita2, Khandelwal Puja3 and Zade Varsha4

1and 2Centre for Bee Development, Nalwadi, Wardha, MS, India, 442

3Govt. Vidharbha Institute of Science & Humanities, Amravati, MS, India, 442 001

4Associate Professor, Govt. Vidharbha Institute of Science & Humanities, Amravati, MS, India, 442 001

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Gopal Paliwal Email: gopalpaliwal23@gmail.com

Abstract

Survey of pre and post-harvest diseases of some solanaceous fruits used for vegetable purpose were carried out from July-2017 to December-2018. It is observed that most of the fruits get destroyed by pathogenic fungi. Some of the fungi found in post-harvest form were not reported in pre harvest condition whereas, inoculums of some pathogens remain constant in pre and post-harvest condition. In order to confirm the pathogenesity of the fungus Kochs postulates method was used to confirm the pathogenesity test. Pathogenic fungi reported in pre and post-harvest condition of Solanum melongina (Brinjal) were Colletotrichum capsici and Dreshschlera rostrata, Cladosporium cladosporioides while Rhizsopus stolonifer, Rhizoctonia sp and Fusarium oxysporum, Phoma exiqua were reported on Solanum tuberosum (Potato), Alternaria alternata, Fusarium oxysporum and Curvularia lunata, Cladosporium sp were reported on Lycopersicon lycopersicum The nutritional information related with the parameters like moisture, protein, fat, fiber, carbohydrate, caloric value, sodium, potassium, calcium, iron and magnesium contents in some honey samples has been critically explored in the present study. The honeys commercially available in local market (probably resourced from Apis mellifera bee-species) have been compared with the honeys of A. dorsata bee-species that gathered from different floral origin for the said purpose. The comparative analytical outcome (nutritional information) suggests that the levels of ‘moisture’, ‘sodium’ and ‘iron’ found to be significantly less in A. dorsata honeys than that of commercial brands. The values in the case of ‘protein’ and ‘fiber’ have been measured to be at moderate level with insignificant variations on comparison while that in the case of parameters like ‘fat’, ‘carbohydrate’, ‘caloric value’, ‘potassium’, ‘calcium’ and ‘magnesium’ were drastically at the very high level in A. dorsata honeys than commercial honeys. It also means that the honeys generated from A. dorsata bee-species and commercially available brands shows their unique nutritional characteristics and seems to be influenced and attributed with bee-species-, floral- and geo- specific conditions.

Keywords:PreHoney, Apis dorsata, Apis mellifera, Nutritional Information, Vidarbha

Editor: Dr.Arvind Chavhan

Cite this article as:
Paliwal Gopal, Paliwal Sunita, Khandelwal Puja and Zade Varsha. Exploration of nutritional information in some honeys of commercial brands- and Apis dorsata in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State in India, Int. Res. Journal of Science & Engineering, 2020, Volume 8 (2): 71-84.

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