Caracterização de méis produzidos em Capanema – PR por espectroscopia FTIR - ATR

Abstract

Honey is determined to be a sweet viscous fluid, mostly produced by Apis Mellifera bees from plant nectar. Its composition is highly complex and its characteristics depend on environmental, seasonal and processing factors. The city of Capanema located in the southwest of the state of Paraná, borders the Iguaçu National Park and the Republic of Argentina, making the fauna and flora very rich. Therefore, this present work aims to evaluate the characteristics of honey produced by Apis mellífero in Capanema – PR. For this, an Infrared Spectroscopy with Fourier Transform with Attenuated Reflectance (FTIR – ATR) analysis was carried out and data processing was carried out in the Origin Pro 2023 application. After the analysis, it was possible to compare the samples, helping to identify the connections, thus, bands were identified that, according to the literature, are characteristic for this type of honey. With this, there was also a comparison of one of the external samples that presented a different spectrum from the other samples, based on the characteristics compared to the others, hypotheses were suggested in addition to subsequent studies to enrich the project. Furthermore, large bands were found in the regions from 3500 to 2800 cm-1, very characteristic bands that, with subsequent analysis to identify these compounds, could then identify the different characteristics of these samples.