400？MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis techniques were used in the context of food surveillance to measure 328 honey samples with 1H and 13C NMR. Using principal component analysis (PCA), clusters of honeys from the same botanical origin were observed. The chemical shifts of the principal monosaccharides (glucose and fructose) were found to be mostly responsible for this differentiation. Furthermore, soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) could be used to automatically classify spectra according to their botanical origin with 95–100% accuracy. Direct quantification of 13 compounds (carbohydrates, aldehydes, aliphatic and aromatic acids) was additionally possible using external calibration curves and applying TSP as internal standard. Hence, NMR spectroscopy combined with chemometrics is an efficient tool for simultaneous identification of botanical origin and quantification of selected constituents of honeys. 1. Introduction Honey is a natural, sweet, and syrupy fluid collected by bees from nectar of flowers [1]. The taste and aroma of this liquid vary according to its floral origin, geographical and seasonal conditions [1]. The large number of melliferous sources gives therefore the opportunity to produce many characteristical unifloral and a high number of polyfloral nectar honeys. Each honey is unique on the basis of chemistry, amount, and combination of the various components that give each honey a unique and individual organoleptic character. The control and characterization of quality and botanical origin of unifloral honeys are of great importance and interest in apiculture. Today the most important techniques to determine or certify the unifloral origin of honeys are the melissopalynological analysis and the evaluation of organoleptic characteristics [2]. Current quality assessment of honey by these methods are time-consuming and often operator dependent. Moreover, some types of adulterations (e.g., the addition of sugar concentrate to honey) can hardly be detected with such methods [3]. Various novel, fast, and accurate chromatographic methods such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) [4–7], gas chromatography (GC) [8–10], liquid chromatography with electrochemical detector [11], and matrix-assisted-laser-desorption/ionization-time-of-flight-mass-spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) [12, 13] have been used to obtain the chemical composition and detect possible adulteration of honey. Vibration spectroscopic methods such as
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