Whether this small peak of the HFS chromatogram can be taken as a notable distinction
between honey and syrup must be validated through a detail inspection on a lot of authentic honey from various nectar sources or geographical origin and various kinds of syrup from different
producers. Fig. 2 showed HPLC chromatogram of HFS from corn, rice or cavassa starch (Fig. 2(a)–(d)), oligoisomaltose (Fig. 2(e)) and oxyl-oligosaccharide syrup (Fig. 2(f)) produced by
different producers in China. All the inspected HFS chromatograms