Atrouse O M, Al-Sabaylah M A and Al-Abbadi S Y (2008).
Studies on Physical and Chemical Analysis of Various Honey samples and their Antioxidant activities.
Journal of Biological Science 8(8):1338-1342
ABSTRACT: - Results of this study intended to determine the different properties of various hone samples collected from different region in Jordan. These results proved that there were differences in some properties of honey samples and were found to meet the major national and international honey specifications. The thermal behavior of honey samples showed differences in the onset of degradation temperature (124-130oC). and in the degradation temperature(137-148oC).The levels of flavonoids were found to be in the range of 7.4-106µg g-1, This deference depends on the origin where honey sample collected. Results of antioxidant activities were also evaluated by determining the 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging ability and they were found to be significant (21.5-21.8 mg g-1).
Keywords: Honey, flavonoids, antioxidant, DPPH, thermal degradation test
