PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING, ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY PROPERTIES OF SEVERAL STINGLESS BEE POLLENS PROCESSED USING DIFFERENT DRYING METHODS

Year 2023, Volume: 23 Issue: 2, 153 - 166, 19.11.2023

Netty Maria Naıbaho Widya Fatrıasarı Irawan Wijaya Kusuma Enos Tangke Arung

https://doi.org/10.31467/uluaricilik.1286430

Abstract

Antioxidants play a crucial function in fighting free radicals that can harm biomolecules in the human body and damage cells, which can lead to immunological disorders including inflammation. In this research, we evaluated bee pollen extracts from six stingless bees (Heterotrigona itama, Tetragonula reepeni, Tetragonula testaceitarsis, Tetragonula fuscobalteata, Tetragonula iridipennis, and Tetragonula pagdeni) processed using different drying methods for antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity. Each sample was divided into two specimens, where one was processed by ovendrying at 40ºC and the second was chilled at 4 ºC, then extracted by ethanol. The extracts of T. fuscobalteata had the highest antioxidant activity when dried in an oven with an IC50 value of 36.47 µg/mL, while T. reepeni using a chiller was 41.30 mg/mL. The highest anti-inflammatory activity was for oven-dried T. fuscobalteata with an IC50 of 39.70 mg/mL, while chilled T. reepeni was 34.30 µg/mL. Different drying techniques can affect the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity of bee pollen extracts as well as their potential as food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic ingredients.

Keywords

Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory, Bee pollen, Drying method, Stingless bees

Supporting Institution

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, the Republic of Indonesia and National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)

Project Number

Grant no 429/UN17.L1/HK/2022 and 398/II/FR/3/2022

Thanks

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, the Republic of Indonesia in the scheme Doctoral Dissertation Research 2022 (Grant no 429/UN17.L1/HK/2022) and by the Deputy of Research and Innovation, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) with Grant number: 398/II/FR/3/2022.

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