Chemometric Analysis of Selected Honey Samples from Western Part of Romania

Romania plays an important part in the European and world honey production and trade. Chestnut (Castanea sativa) and Linden ilia cordata) are very important types of honey in Romania, because there are quite large areas where these trees grow. Honeydew is collected by honey bees, which transform it into a strongly flavoured dark colour honey less sweet than floral honey. It is quite common in a number of countries from Europe, including Romania. The aim of this study was to determine the colour, pH, total acidity, ash, electrical conductivity and water content of selected honey samples from western part of Romania and performed chemometric analysis for honey type discrimination. Univariate analysis explores each parameter in the data set, for all honey types, and multivariate statistic gives us the opportunity to determine which variables can discriminate the three honey types as clusters.