QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HONEY EXTRACTED USING TRADITIONAL METHODS FROM SOME HONEY BEARING COMMUNITIES OF KADUNA STATE
QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HONEY EXTRACTED USING TRADITIONAL METHODS FROM SOME HONEY BEARING COMMUNITIES OF KADUNA STATE ABSTRACT Twelve commercial honey samples obtained using five different traditional methods of honey extraction, from some honey bearing communities of Kaduna State Nigeria, were analysed using laboratory analytical procedures and ANOVA statistical tool to determine the effects of traditional methods of honey extraction on the products quality parameters. The parameters determined alongside their range for the honey samples, included moisture content (15.50 – 22.00%), ash content (0.50 – 0.85%), pH (3.44 – 4.16), total acidity (0.12 – 0.37%), reducing sugar (50.08 – 54.20%), sucrose (26.61 – 28.80%), density (1322.35 – 1382.16g/L) and water insoluble content (1.30 – 1.70%) were obtained. For the microbiological characteristics; total bacteria plate count (1.7 x 10 2 – 9.8 x 10 3 cfu/g), total coliform count (1.3 x 10 2 – 7.7 x 10 3 cfu/g) mould count (2.0 x ...