BIOTECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF APILARNIL AND ROYAL JELLY USED IN OBTAINING SOME FUNCTIONAL FOODS

Claudia Paşca, D.S. Dezmirean, Otilia Bobiş, L.Al. Mărghitaș, Victorița Bonta

Abstract
    Bees, through their activity, provide bee products containing a variety of biologically active compounds, which, in varying proportions, have a positive impact on general human health, on the physical performance or mental status but also from a nutritional point of view. Through this research, it was sought the obtaining of two functional foods based on apilarnil, royal jelly and multifloral pollen with biotechnological potential. The products prototypes produced were characterized from a physico-chemical and organoleptic point of view. Moisture content, lipid content by Soxhlet method, carbohydrate content by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC-IR), mineral elements content by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), nitrogen content total by Kjeldahl method and polyphenolic compounds have been identified using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC-PDA). A number of 30 people, aged 18-40 years, were questioned by different sexes and occupations, predominating people aged 18-25 years to 80%. As regards the energy value of each assortment of jelly, the results are satisfactory, it is less than 200 kcal/100g compared to Haribo jelly, whose energy value is 340 kcal/100g. The analyses results carried out on the two products recorded high rutin concentrations (21.16 μg/g), chlorogenic acid (7.01 μg/g) and isoquercetine (2.86 μg/g) for the assortment of royal jelly and multifloral pollen and concentrations significant in rutin (22.59 μg/g), chlorogenic acid (6.79 μg/g), isoquercetine (2.69 μg/g), as well as naringenin (5.56 μg/g), for jellies with apilarnil and multifloral pollen. In conclusion, following the research study, we would like to recommend the consumption of the two varieties of jelly namely: royal jelly and multifloral pollen, respectively apilarnil and multifloral pollen for the biologically active potential of the identified compounds which prints antidepressant, immunomodulatory, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, hypolypidemic and antioxidant activity, DNA protection, active receptors of peroxyizomes proliferation compared to commercial jellies, where quantity and concentration of polyphenolic compounds is greatly diminished.