Determination of metabolite differences between loquat nectar and honey by UPLC-MS/MS.

ABSTRACT: Honey is a widely consumed natural agricultural product. Honey bees produce honey by collecting nectar from different flowers and then metabolising it to form honey which is stored in the hive. The current focus of research has been on the primary characteristic metabolites of monofloral honey from different plant sources. There is a lack of understanding of the differences in the transformation and composition of overall metabolites between plant nectar and the honey that is processed by bees after nectar feeding. In this study, loquat nectar and mature loquat honey were used for the detection of all non-volatile metabolites in both by ultra performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). Subsequently, an analysis was conducted on the primary metabolites, includin

SUBMITTER: Sun X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12447926 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature