Table 5.
Average concentrations (mg kg−1) of the suspect screening analytes.
| Botanical origin of honey (number of samples) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyte | Pine (N = 3) | Fir (N = 4) | Oak (N = 2) | Thyme (N = 4) | Heather (N = 3) | Orange (N = 3) | Sage (N = 3) | Chestnut (N = 2) | Arbutus (N = 4) | Carob (N = 2) |
| 2,5-Dimethyl furan | 0.043 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.099 | 0.027 | 0.014 | 0.015 | 0.18 | 1.5 | 0.066 |
| Octene | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.11 | 0.074 | 0.025 | ND | ND | 0.21 | 0.016 | ND |
| 3-Hepten-2-one | ND | ND | ND | 0.0079 | ND | 0.29 | 0.052 | 0.0097 | ND | 0.014 |
| Prenol | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.078 | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.20 | 0.16 | 0.091 |
| 2,3-Butanediol | 1.1 | 0.19 | 9.2 | 0.13 | 0.099 | 0.12 | 0.41 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.23 |
| 3-Furaldehyde | 0.19 | 0.46 | 0.10 | 0.52 | 1.6 | 0.55 | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.48 | 0.30 |
| 3-methylbutanoic acid | 0.69 | 0.17 | 0.38 | 0.89 | 0.32 | ND | 0.30 | 0.61 | 0.11 | 1.11 |
| 2-Furanmethanol | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.36 | 0.038 | 0.084 | 0.024 | 0.039 | 0.22 | 0.19 | 0.092 |
| α-Pinene | 0.14 | 0.038 | 0.039 | 0.0031 | 0.071 | ND | 0.015 | 0.016 | 0.010 | 0.032 |
| Methyl hexanoate | 0.017 | 0.026 | 0.021 | 0.029 | 0.021 | 0.021 | 0.022 | 0.028 | 0.025 | 0.023 |
| Furan-2-pentyl | 0.32 | 0.34 | 0.71 | 1.5 | 0.27 | 0.15 | 0.65 | 0.57 | 0.92 | 0.51 |
| 1-octen-3-ol | 0.71 | 0.67 | 0.90 | 0.51 | 0.94 | ND | 0.92 | 0.60 | 0.48 | 1.2 |
| 6-Methyl-5-hepten-2-one | ND | 0.11 | 0.079 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 1.1 | ND | ND | ND | 0.074 |
| Limonene | 0.013 | 0.0061 | 0.0031 | 0.019 | 0.0039 | 0.011 | 0.0048 | 0.021 | 0.0061 | 0.011 |
| β-Isophorone | ND | ND | ND | ND | 0.19 | ND | ND | ND | 4.7 | ND |
| Benzeneacetaldehyde | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 16 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 20 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 2-Nonanone | 0.052 | 0.091 | 0.044 | 0020 | ND | ND | ND | 0.057 | 0.029 | 0.018 |
| Acetophenone | 0.067 | 0.055 | 0.068 | 0.073 | 0.087 | ND | 0.10 | 0.94 | ND | 0.054 |
| Linalool | 0.32 | 0.71 | 1.6 | 0.29 | 0.27 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.76 | 0.16 | 2.5 |
| Methyl octanoate | 0.058 | 0.049 | 0.077 | 0.036 | 0.031 | 0.019 | 0.034 | 0.061 | 0.046 | 0.063 |
| Methyl benzoate | 0.035 | 0.021 | 0.090 | 0.015 | 0.49 | ND | 0.013 | 0.057 | 0.016 | ND |
| Hotrienol | 0.11 | 0.083 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 0.14 | 0.49 | 0.31 | 1.5 | 0.40 | 5.7 |
| Phenylethyl alcohol | 0.027 | 0.026 | 0.038 | 0.34 | 0.030 | 0.021 | 0.035 | 0.041 | 0.038 | 0.035 |
| Lilac aldehyde (Isomer) | ND | 0.25 | ND | 0.28 | ND | 2.4 | 0.19 | 0.31 | ND | 0.14 |
| Ethyl benzoate | ND | 0.069 | ND | ND | 0.87 | ND | ND | 0.31 | 0.56 | 0.12 |
| Dill ether | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 11 | ND | ND | ND | ND |
| Methyl nonanoate | 0.085 | 0.074 | 0.062 | 0.048 | 0.037 | 0.028 | 0.052 | 0.082 | 0.043 | 0.13 |
| Myrtenol | 0.24 | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND |
| 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde | ND | ND | ND | 0.23 | 3.7 | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND |
| 2-Aminoacetophenone | ND | ND | 0.030 | ND | ND | ND | ND | 1.2 | ND | ND |
| Methyl anthranilate | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 1.7 | ND | ND | ND | ND |
ND: Non-Detected (<LOD).