Características físico-químicas de méis de abelha (Apis mellifera L.) em diferentes condições de armazenamento.

Abstract

The storage of african bees honeys (Aipis mellifera L.) which were collected from slough and cariri in Paraíba state was studied. Considering the bloomed, two kinds of bee honey (wild bloomed honey and baraúna bloomed honey) were used and storaged under three different conditions of packages ( Ei - opaque polyethylene container, that was under environment light and temperature; E2 - polyethylene container that was under environment temperature but it wasn't under light environment; E3 - translucent glass container which was exposed to environment temperature and light). These honeys stayed 180 days in packages and their physiochemical characteristics were analysed monthly to observe the possible alterations of them ( 0 Brix, Humidity, Ashes, Hydroximethylfurfurol - HMF, Reducers Sugar, Apparent Saccharose, Diastasic Activity and pH) to verify the efficiency of these packages in the honeys qualities index. The physiochemical analyses of the honeys were done according to the Normative Instruction of the Agriculture and Provisioning Ministry (Brazil, 2000). During the storage time, the médium found values to the 0 Brix of the wild bloomed honey were between 78.03 and 78.42 0 Brix and the ones of the baraúna bloomed honey were between 81.31 and 81.63 0 Brix and there wasn't significant difference among the packages during the storage period. The Humidity rates (%) were between 19.48 and 20.48% to the wild honey and between 16.25 and 16.70 to the baraúna honey. There were no significant differences of the Ashes and Insoluble Solids values on their time and packages. The rates in the HMF index varied from 4.57 to 10.17 mg/Kg of honey and from 1.08 to 7.12 mg/Kg, to the wild and baraúna honeys, respectively. According to the statistics analyses, a significant difference of 1% of probability for both honeys was verified, besides the averages are different among them. To the HMF, there was a significant difference among the packages and the E2 was the most efficient to the control of the increase of this index in both studied honeys. The médium values of the Reducers Sugar were between 74.09 and 76.41% to the wild honey and they were between 62.51 and 64.80% to the baraúna honey. The Apparent Saccharose values were between 2.18 and 3.01% to the wild honey and they were between 2.40 and 2.89 to de baraúna honey. The honeys had a little time variation and the packages had no influence on the saccharose, in both honeys. The Diastasic Activity (DN) on the Wild honey varied from 13.37 to 18.71 DN and the variation of the baraúna honey was from 9.14 to 13.25 DN. The statistics analyses were significative at 1% of probability and at the Tukey test for both honeys, the averages were diferent among them and the E2 package was more efficient than the Ei and E3 to the unacceleration of the diástase index for both honeys. Analysing the pH, the wild honey was more acid (3.42 to 3.55) than the baraúna honey (3.85 to 4.15). Ali the samples are according to the Agriculture and Provision Ministry patterns. According to the final result, it's conclued that there was a bigger efficiency of the E2 package and it contributed to the rhythm unaceleration in the distasic index. It was observed that the free acidity index increased during the storage period.