Detection of Adulterated Honey by Fluorescence Excitation-Emission Matrices

Table 2

Statistical analysis mean values, standard deviation: SD, and statistical significance of difference between means: of five spectral domain volumes (marked on Figure 1) in EEMs of 99 natural and 15 fake honey.

Spectral domain	Honey	Mean	SD
1st	Natural	1.38 × 10^5	3399	4.90 × 10^−13
	Fake	6.13 × 10^4	8688
2nd	Natural	9.42 × 10^4	2580	2.03 × 10^−11
	Fake	4.14 × 10^4	6597
3rd	Natural	5.70 × 10^4	1895	7.97 × 10^−12
	Fake	1.73 × 10^4	4844
4th	Natural	3.37 × 10^5	6844	5.44 × 10^−13
	Fake	1.83 × 10^5	17494
5th	Natural	3.08 × 10^5	5191	3.12 × 10^−21
	Fake	1.40 × 10^5	13268

Values are in counts  nm². Decision on statistical significance is made in a traditional way based on a probability value for the null hypothesis. : >0.05, not significant; 0.05 to 0.01, significant; 0.01 to 0.001, very significant; <0.001, extremely significant.