3.2. Moisture
Stingless bee honey is often characterized as possessing higher
moisture than the paradigm of honey from the western honey bee
A. mellifera. From the 28 samples the average moisture content is
31 ± 5.4 g/100 g. Moisture content ranged from 25 to 47 g/100 g.
For the ten samples measured from the T. laeviceps-pagdeni complex
the moisture content averaged 28 ± 1.8 g/100 g. Comparable
data from South America (Vit et al., 2013) showed mean moisture
content of 26 ± 4.8 g/100 g interpolated from the analysis of 31
species.