Characteristics physicist-chemistries of honeys produced in combs different of the age / <br> Características físico-químicas de méis produzidos em favos de diferentes idades

Honey color is a characteristic related to the flower source and plays a major role on consumers buying preference. When finished, honey is placed in wax honeycombs that are composed mainly by hydrocarbons, esters and a small percentage of fatty acids and alcohols that give to wax the plasticity and...

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Main Authors: Alisson Becker Pacheco, Dileta Cecchetti, Angélica de Almeida Lara, Hélio Carlos Rocha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2010-09-01
Series:Semina: Ciências Agrárias
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Online Access:http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/6503