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The color (C) varied between water white and dark amber. Proteins (mL) varied from 0.00 (S5) to 2.00 (S4). Lund test from 0.00% (S5) to 3.10% (S6), total phenols (TP%) from 0.04 to 13.45 mg\/100 g GAE, total flavonoids from (TF%) 0.03 to 0.11 mg\/100 g QE, and HMF from 0.00 to 14.28 mg\/kg. There was an increased amount of PRO in S7 and S8. S1, S4, S7 and S8 had the best antioxidant activity (EC50). A heat map showed that S2 was the sample with the highest %Brix, %insoluble solids, %humidity and pH, but the lowest TP%. S7 had the highest C, proline (PRO), TF%, EC50 and EC. S4 had high %A and intermediate results between groups 9, 5, 6 and groups 1, 3, 8. The sample honey S6 showed a high content of TP (13.45 \u00b1 0.98 mg\/100 g of GAE). In contrast, stingless honey samples exhibited better DPPH scavenging activity (EC50: 21.45 \u00b1 0.54 to 53.71 \u00b1 0.24 mg\/mL). The chemometric classification of stingless bee honey revealed that the physicochemical properties contributed significantly to the classification of stingless bee honey from different bee species. 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