Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2018
Abstract
There is a lot of information about the nutritional and medicinal properties of honey. However, honey may contain compounds that can lead to toxicity.
Plant toxins or phytotoxins are secondary plant metabolites that show acute or chronic toxicity or have anti-nutritional effects. Feeding bees on the flowers of toxic plants can result in the contamination of honey.
The most important plant toxins in honey are pyrolizidine alkaloids and gryanotoxins (GTX).