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Physicochemical and antioxidant properties of Bangladeshi honeys stored for more than one year
Author Affiliations
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
Published InBMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Year2012
Citations125
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There is no available information on physicochemical and antioxidant properties on Bangladeshi honey. We investigated five different monofloral and three different multifloral honey samples collected from different parts of Bangladesh. METHODS: The levels of phenolics, flavonoids, ascorbic acid, ascorbic acid equivalent antioxidant content (AEAC), proline, protein and antioxidants were determined in the honey samples using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assays. RESULTS: The highest level of phenolic was 688.5 ± 5.9 mg Gallic acid/kg, and the highest level of flavonoid was 155 ± 6.9 mg Catechin/kg. The highest color intensity was 2034.00 ± 17.5 mAU, and the highest protein content was 8.6 ± 0.0mg/g. High levels of proline (2932.8 ± 3.7 mg/kg), ascorbic acid (154.3 ±…
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