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COLOR OF HONEY is its most quickly noted characteristic, and it has long been used to form quick opinions of its other characteristics. Many believe that the strength (or desirability?) of flavor can be inferred from its color. It is known that some analytical characteristics of honey vary with its color. Schuette and his colleagues at Wisconsin found that the darker honeys are richer in ash, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron. copper, manganese, chlorine and sulfur. They also found that enzyme contents of dark honeys are higher than of light honeys.
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