Determination of Antioxidant Activities of the Chestnut and Flower Honeys Collected from Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey

Authors : Özlem Saral

Pages : 28-32

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Publication Date : 2018-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Honey, a natural product produced by honey bees insert ignore into journalissuearticles values( Apis mellifera );, is used as a sweetener and food source for human. Composition of honey varies depending on bee collects nectar type of plants and environmental conditions. In this study, flower and chestnut honeys, collected from different cities insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Trabzon, Rize, Bayburt ve Artvin);  of the Eastern Black Sea Region, were investigated antioxidant activity. For determination of antioxidant capacity, total phenolic content, Copper insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(II); Ion Reducing Antioxidant Capacity Assay insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CUPRAC);, iron-reducing antioxidant capacities insert ignore into journalissuearticles values( FRAP); and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(DPPH); radical scavenging capacity tests were selected. The total phenolic content varied from 20.05 to 57.18 mg/g extract as gallic acid equivalent. The antioxidant activities found with CUPRAC ranged from 1.37 to 3.40 µM/g, DPPH · scavenging activity as SC50 ranged from 22.36 to 115.53 mg/mL, FRAP value as FeSO 4 equivalent were varied from 1.25 to 49.32 µM/g exract. Chestnuts honey was found to have higher antioxidant activity than flower honey all analyzes.
Keywords : Honey, phenolic content, antioxidan activity, chestnut