Determination Antimicrobial Activity, Palynological Characteristics and Chemical Composition of Some Honey Samples from Turkey

Authors : Yusuf ÇAKIR, Duygu Nur ÇOBANOĞLU, Gökhan DERVİŞOĞLU, Serhat KOÇYİĞİT, Davut KARAHAN, Sedat YELKOVAN

Pages : 41-60

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Publication Date : 2020-06-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Honey has been used in traditional medicine since ancient times. Many parameters such as botanical, geological, climatic features constitute the characteristic features of honey. For this reason, it is important to reveal the chemical, palynological and antibacterial properties of honey in regional studies with honey. In this study, antimicrobial, palynological and chemical properties of some honey samples produced in Turkey were determined. The effects of honeys of Rize insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Anzer);, Gümüşhane and Sivas insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Zara); provinces on some pathogens were investigated via antimicrobial test. According to this test, all of the honey samples was effective on S. aureus and S. cerevisae, only honey from Anzer region was effective on E. coli, and none of the honey samples showed activity on L. monocytogenes and C. Albicans. In the palynological analysis, 36 pollen taxa were determined. Chemical compositions of honey samples were determined by GC-MS analysis. GC-MS results showed all of the honey samples had antibacterial and antioxidant properties and this was proved in the antimicrobial test. The structure types of honey samples were determined by FTIR analysis and chemical bond types in FTIR correlated with the chemical compositions of GC-MS results.
Keywords : Palynological characteristics, chemical composition, antimicrobial activity, honey