Quality assessment of honey collected from Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh

The study characterizes the physico-chemical parameters of honey samples collected from different locations in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. It was observed that these samples had the following properties: Moisture was 12.96–19.02%; pH 3.28–4.80, TSS 68.2–71^o brix, total solids 80.97–87.03%, reducing sugar 45.64–62.37%, total sugar 50.26–71.02% and non-reducing sugar 2.42–11.04%. The sample with least moisture content was from Haldwani (13%) followed by Tanda (14%) and Rampur (15%). The minimum pH was observed in the sample from Pilibhit (3.28). The highest TSS was observed in the honey from Dineshpur (71⁰brix) followed by Khatima, Tanda and Almora (70^o brix). The total solid % was found to be the maximum with honey from Haldwani (87%) followed by the ones from Tanda (85%) and Rampur (84%). The reducing sugar was found to be maximum with Haldwani (62%) sample, followed by the ones from Halduchaor (59%) and Almora (56%); while the total sugar was found to be the maximum with Haldwani (71%) sample, followed by those from Almora (65%) and Halduchaor (64%).