Table 1.
Relative abundance (%) of monosaccharides (MS), disaccharides (DS), and trisaccharides (TS) in honey samples from Calabria.
| Sugars (%) |
Honey Type (Number of Samples) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citrus | Eucalyptus | Sulla | Chestnut | Acacia | |
| (n = 12) | (n = 10) | (n = 12) | (n = 16) | (n = 10) | |
| Total MS | |||||
| Mean ± sd | 91 b,c ± 1,4 | 92.2 c±1.15 | 89.0 a,b ± 3.8 | 87.77 a ± 2.67 | 89.2 a,b ± 0.94 |
| Range | 88.3–92.6 | 90.1–93.3 | 77.7 ± 92.6 | 84.1–91.1 | 88.4–90.7 |
| Total DS | |||||
| Mean ± sd | 8.0 a ± 1.3 | 7.1 a ± 0.98 | 9.7 a,b ± 4.0 | 11.76 c ± 2.67 | 8.3 a ± 0.64 |
| Range | 6.9–10.8 | 6.1–8.5 | 6.2–21.6 | 8.8–15.7 | 7.8–9.7 |
| Total TS | |||||
| Mean ± sd | 1.1 b ± 0.5 | 0.8 a,b ± 0.26 | 1.2 b ± 0.4 | 0.46 a ± 0.41 | 2.4 c ± 0.55 |
| Range | 0.5–2 | 0.6–1.4 | 0.8–1.2 | 0.2–1.2 | 1.4–3.3 |
Results are expressed as the mean values ± standard deviations. a, b and c letters show significant differences among the honey type—Tukey’s test, p-level ≤ 0.05.