%0 Journal Article %T Physicochemical Properties and Antioxidant Activity Characterization of Honey Brands Distributed in Tehran, Iran %J Iranian Journal of Veterinary Medicine %I University of Tehran %Z 2251-8894 %A Miakhil, Atiqullah %A Kamkar, Abolfazl %A Banuree, Sayed Attaul Haq %D 2023 %\ 02/07/2023 %V %N %P - %! Physicochemical Properties and Antioxidant Activity Characterization of Honey Brands Distributed in Tehran, Iran %K Antioxidant activity %K honey %K Honey brands %K physicochemical parameters %K standards %R 10.22059/ijvm.2023.353367.1005348 %X AbstractBackground: Honey, a naturally sweet food product, is accompanied by several health benefits. The quality of honey is determined by its microbiological, physicochemical and antioxidant properties which can greatly differ from brand to brand and country to country. Objectives: To assess the physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity of honey brands distributed in Tehran and compare the parameters with national and international standards. Methods: Five brands (Shakelli, Khansar, Golagin, Shafi, and Kral) of honey in Tehran were selected and five samples of each brand were collected from supermarkets and analyzed by standard methods for physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS. Results: The results depicted significant differences among studied honey brands in all physicochemical properties (except for ash, total reducing sugars and sucrose contents), and antioxidant activity (P<0.05). The moisture, ash, pH, free acidity, total reducing sugars, sucrose, diastase, and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) contents of honey brands ranged in 16.30-15.34%, 0.24-0.40%, 4.27-4.39 units, 9.15-10.68 meq/kg, 77.84-79.74 %, 3.66-4.57%, 2.28-3.28 DN, 6.67-11.84 mg/kg, respectively. Thus, the physicochemical properties of studied honey brands except for diastase activity were within national and international legal limits. Moreover, total phenolic contents (TPC) and radical scavenging activity (RSA) of 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) of honey brands ranged in 28.72-39.36 mgGAE/100gr and 63.83-73.91%, respectively. Beyond that, highly significant positive correlation was observed between TPC and RSA of DPPH of honey samples (r=0.798, P<0.01). Conclusion: The studied honey brands were of good quality and met the existent national and international standards at all. %U https://ijvm.ut.ac.ir/article_90976_a6e473ef73aea39767e34ede4f18c4af.pdf