A Study of Ibn Hayan Honey Antioxidant Power

Abstract

Reaching for a spoon of honey may do more than simply satisfy a sweet tooth; this paperlooks to compare the ferric reducing abilities of plasma (FRAP), for a 5 honey sampled fromaround the world. FRAP was found to be as follows Australian Manulka+15 > Ibn Hayan II> Ibn Hayan I > As-Sombola (KSA) > Ibn Hayan III (Iraq) > Essex-Bx (UK). The mainindicator of anti-oxidant power was the total polyphenol contents, andhydroxymethylfulfural (HMF) to test the freshness of each sample sourced. All of the honeystudied had an additive impact of the levels of anti-oxidants in blood plasma. This plasmawas collected from 25 randomly selected healthy male volunteers from Baghdad, Iraq.FRAP values were determined using different concentrations of honey samples and found tohave a positive correlation for all the honey included in this study. Interestingly, Ibn Hayan(II) demonstrated a significant difference between experimentally determined and calculatedFRAP values. This may be attributed to the possibility of excess metallic or herbalcontaminants; this seems plausible given the relative purity of its Australian counterpart,Manulka+15.