As a functional food, honey is a food product that is exposed to the risk of food fraud. To mitigate this, the establishment of an authentication system for honey is very important in order to protect both producers and consumers from possible econom...
Natural products are important sources of redox-active phytochemicals, but meaningful interpretation of their biological effects requires accurate botanical and chemical characterization. The vernacular label “lotus” is applied to botanic...
Honey is highly vulnerable to botanical mislabeling and fraud, highlighting the need for dedicated analytical approaches capable of reliably supporting authenticity assessment. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to integrate tradit...
The botanical origin of honey determines its composition and hence properties and product quality. As a highly valued food product worldwide, assurance of the authenticity of honey is required to prevent potential fraud. In this work, the characteris...
This study develops a comprehensive workflow integrating Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) with advanced supervised machine learning to authenticate the botanical origin of honeys from fi...
Bacopa monnieri, commonly known as Brahmi, is a perennial herbaceous plant used in Ayurvedic medicine owing to its nootropic properties. The increased demand for bacopa-derived herbal/food products has motivated adulteration practices through plant s...
Members of the genus Salvia are used as culinary herbs and are prized for their purported medicinal attributes. Since physiological effects can vary widely between species of Salvia, it is of great importance to accurately identify botanical material...
Traditional herbal medicine, ethnopharmacology, and evidence-based phytotherapy inspire the development of botanical active ingredients for cosmetics. Ensuring their authenticity and quality is essential in guaranteeing the safety and efficacy of cos...
There is an increase in the consumption of natural foods with healthy benefits such as honey. The physicochemical composition contributes to the particularities of honey that differ depending on the botanical origin. Botanical and geographical declar...
Honey differentiation based on the botanical origin is crucial to guarantee product authenticity, especially considering the increasing number of fraud cases. This study assessed the metabolomic differences arising from various botanical origins in h...
Metabolite fingerprint profiling is a robust tool for verifying suppliers of authentic botanical ingredients. While comparative studies exist, few apply identical conditions across multiple species; this study utilized a cross-species comparison to i...
Food authenticity control represents a constant concern nowadays, and against this background, new means of food fraud detection are developed by research and control laboratories. Among the most accessible analytical methods in this regard, attenuat...
The aim of this review is to describe the chromatographic, spectrometric, and spectroscopic techniques applied to honey for the determination of botanical and geographical origin and detection of adulteration. Based on the volatile profile of honey a...
Honey is a highly consumed commodity due to its potential health benefits upon certain consumption, resulting in a high market price. This fact indicates the need to protect honey from fraudulent acts by delivering comprehensive analytical methodolog...
The present study was undertaken for the first time in India to generate a database of isotopic signatures of authentic Indian honey to verify the regulatory criteria laid down by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). In this stud...
Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is an increasingly used natural product in botanical dietary supplements, valued for its bioactive compounds. However, inconsistent standardized analytical methods raise concerns over product authenticity, mislabeling, and q...
As a high-value product used as food, medicine, or cosmetics, honey is particularly susceptible to adulteration. Therefore, it must be regularly tested at various stages of its life cycle to ensure its quality and authenticity, especially its botanic...
Authentication of extra virgin olive oils is a key strategy for their valorization and a way to preserve olive biodiversity. Physical and thermal analysis have been proposed in this study as fast and green techniques to reach this goal. Thirteen extr...
Honeys have specific organoleptic characteristics, with nutritional and health benefits, being highly appreciated by consumers, not only in food but also in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Honey composition varies between regions accordin...
Botanical dietary supplements are widely used, and many are marketed for liver support. Yet product-specific prevalence data are limited, and composition, standardisation, authenticity, and safety vary substantially. This focused narrative review int...
Honey is a functional, honeybee product with a useful role in human nutrition and several health benefits. Greece is a Mediterranean region with several types of monofloral honey. Today, Greek honey has acquired an important position in national and...
Miraruira is a medicinal plant-based product (MPBP) that is widely used in the state of Amazonas for the treatment of diabetes, though its botanical identity remains unclear, which raises concerns about authenticity and therapeutic consistency. One s...
Olive oil is among the most popular supplements of the Mediterranean diet due to its high nutritional value. However, at the same time, because of economical purposes, it is also one of the products most subjected to adulteration. As a result, authen...
Ginkgo biloba is one of the most consumed medicinal plants and broadly included as an ingredient in plant food supplements (PFS) and herbal infusions, being potential targets for economically motivated adulteration. This work aimed at comparing the u...
Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared ppectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) proved to be a reliable, rapid, and easy-to-use technique to evaluate vegetable oils quality and authenticity. The spectral range of the middle infrared region (MIR) of F...
Polygonum aviculare L. (PAV) is a widely distributed medicinal plant traditionally used for its diuretic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties, whose phenolic composition varies with provenance. This study provides the first integrated pharm...
Several commercially important botanicals have a lack of diagnostic testing options that can quickly and unambiguously identify materials of different matrices. Real-time PCR can be a useful, orthogonal approach to identification for its exceptional...
The essential oils (EOs) of three Caprifoliaceae species, the Eurasiatic Valeriana officinalis (Vo), the Himalayan Valeriana jatamansi (Vj) and Nardostachys jatamansi (Nj), are traditionally used to treat neurological disorders. Roots/rhizomes microm...
Among the variants of Greek honey, the most commonly available are pine, fir, thyme, and citrus honey. Samples of the above kinds of honey, identified according to European and Greek legislation, were studied using gas chromatography coupled with mas...
To analyze the phytogenic components of honey of Amorpha fruticosa L. (AFH) and establish a targeted quantitative method, the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based metabolomic technology was used in this study. Firstly, high performan...
The essential oils (EOs) of the Eurasiatic Valeriana officinalis (Vo), the Himalayan Valeriana jatamansi (Vj) and Nardostachys jatamansi (Nj), are traditionally used to treat neurological disorders. A multidisciplinary approach based on micromorpholo...
Honey is a natural sweet food product with multiple nutritional and medicinal properties, making it a healthy alternative to processed sugars. With the consumers’ recent interest and purchase of dietary products, the global honey market has gre...
Fraud in herbal medicines and botanical supplements—such as biological substitution, dilution with inert material, undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and intentional mislabeling—represents a significant and underestimate...
Polyscias fruticosa (L.) Harms is consumed as food and used traditionally in Southeast Asia, but reproducible ingredient development requires the alignment of raw material identity, chemical specification, processing, exposure, safety, and claims. Th...
Honey’s chemical and sensory characteristics depend on several factors, including its botanical and geographic origins. The consumers’ increasing interest in monofloral honey and honey with a clear indication of geographic origin make the...
Portulaca oleracea (PO) is a commonly known medicinal crop that is an important ingredient for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) due to its use as a vegetable in the diet. PO has been recorded to be frequently adulterated by other related species in...
Rheum tanguticum (Maxim. ex Regel) Balf. is one of three botanical sources of Dahuang and exhibits chemical and processing variability that complicates species attribution and quality assessment. This review aims to synthesize species-specific phytoc...
A comprehensive data collection of authentic “specialty” or “gourmet” oils, namely cold-pressed industrial virgin oils, was performed. Eight different botanical species, i.e., Almond, Apricot, Avocado, Hazelnut, Mosqueta rose,...
Triadica cochinchinensis honey (TCH) is collected from the nectar of the medicinal plant T. cochinchinensis and is considered the most important honey variety in southern China. TCH has significant potential medicinal properties and commercial value....
Honey quality and authenticity assessment require rapid and reliable analytical tools capable of supporting both laboratory and on-site applications. Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy represents a non-destructive and cost-effective approach; however,...
The objective of the study was to check the authenticity of Hungarian honey using physicochemical analysis, near infrared spectroscopy, and melissopalynology. In the study, 87 samples from different botanical origins such as acacia, bastard indigo, r...
Melissopalynological analysis (the microscopic examination of pollen in honey) provides valuable information regarding both the geographic and botanical origins of honey. This study aims to verify the authenticity of different types of honey by asses...
Honey consumption is attributed to potentially advantageous effects on human health due to its antioxidant capacity as well as anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity, which are mainly related to phenolic compound content. Phenolic compounds are...
Honey is a natural product and can be described by its botanical origin, determined by the plants from which the bees collect nectar. It significantly influences the taste of honey and is often used as a quality criterion. Unfortunately, this opens u...
Botanical tourism is a growing niche within nature-based travel, yet little is known about tourists who travel specifically to observe plants in their natural habitats. This study addresses this gap by examining the travel motivations of internationa...
The feasibility of non-targeted off-line SPE LC-LRMS polyphenolic fingerprints to address the classification and authentication of Spanish honey samples based on both botanical origin (blossom and honeydew honeys) and geographical production region w...
The identity of oregano used as a medicinal plant and culinary spice remains controversial due to frequent confusion between Origanum vulgare L., native to the spontaneous flora of Romania (mainly subsp. vulgare), and chemically distinct oregano taxa...
Honey is a highly consumed natural product produced by bees which is susceptible to fraudulent practices, some of them regarding its botanical origin. Two HPLC-UV non-targeted fingerprinting approaches were evaluated in this work to address honey cha...
The palynological and physicochemical analysis of 62 honey samples produced in different biogeographical areas of Algeria was conducted. Results showed high variety in the botanical origin of samples and their physicochemical profile. Twenty-six samp...
The chemical and quality characteristics of honey vary considerably according to floral source, geographical provenance, environmental conditions, and post-harvest handling, complicating its characterization and authentication. In this study, physico...
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