Dinko Dinkov1 and Veselin Ivanov2
1 Trakia University, Faculty of Veterinarian Medicine, Department of Food Quality and Safety and Veterinary Legislation, 6000 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
2 Trakia University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Health Management and Disaster Medicine, 6000 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Dinkov, D. & Ivanov, V. (2024). The effect on the quality of bee honey when feeding the bees on inverted with confectionary invertase sugar syrup. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 30(4), 712–716
The study was carried out on the effects of using sugar syrup inverted with commercially available confectionery invertase as a supplement bee feed on the quality of bee honey. The results revealed an increased level of absorption; an increased level of HMF (2-hydroxymethyl-2-fufuraldehide), as well as high levels of Cu. The blue colour, which was revealed when adding Carraz I (K4Fe(CN)6.3H2O) and Carraz II (Zn(CH3COO)2.2H2O) solutions was associated with high levels of Fe, contained in the beet sugar syrup, inverted with confectionery invertase.