title: Determination of the mineral content of bee honeys produced in Middle Anatolia.
abstract: The mineral content of 43 honey samples from the middle regions of Turkey was investigated. Minerals were determined by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrophotometer. Calcium, potassium, sodium and phosphorus were the most abundant of the elements in all the studied honeys, with average concentrations ranging between 40.13 and 189.69 mg/kg for calcium, 161.01 and 598.62 mg/kg for potassium, 9.34 and 45.9 mg/kg for sodium, and 460.11 and 3,776.96 mg/kg for phosphorus. Cluster analysis of the honey data revealed that the mineral content of Corum and Konya honeys was closer as they formed a cluster at a similarity level of 60%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yavuz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bağci
authors.forename: Derya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: M Musa
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ozcan
authors.forename: Nesim
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dursun
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D006722:Honey / Q000032:analysis*; D008903:Minerals / Q000032:analysis*; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic / Q000379:methods; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014421:Turkey
chemical_list: D008903:Minerals