Affiliation:
1. Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Vytautas Magnus University, LT-44404 Kaunas, Lithuania
2. Institute of Metrology, Kaunas University of Technology, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania
Abstract
Bee pollen is one of the most valuable apitherapeutic products with high nutritional value. To obtain a higher diversity of compounds, higher bioactivity, and improve the release of nutrients from bee pollen, additional processing of the raw material may be applied: fermentation using microorganisms or hydrolysis using selective enzymes. This research aimed to determine the impact of enzymatic hydrolysis on the antioxidant and antibacterial activities of bee pollen. Bee pollen samples from Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Slovakia, Malta, and Lithuania were hydrolyzed using pure enzymes, including lipase, cellulase, protease, and amyloglucosidase, as well as enzyme mixtures such as Viscozyme® L and Clara-diastase. Total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, and antioxidant activity were analyzed spectrophotometrically. Antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus enteritidis, and Salmonella typhimurium was evaluated using the agar well diffusion assay. Obtained results revealed a positive effect of enzymatic hydrolysis on biologically active compound content and activity: total phenolic content increased by 1.1 to 2.5 times, total flavonoid content by 1.1 to 3.0 times, radical scavenging activity by 1.1–3.5 times, and antibacterial activity by 1.1 to 3.3 times. K-means clustering analysis grouped samples into 5–9 clusters and was dependent on the measured characteristic used as an input—total phenolic compounds content, total flavonoid content, antioxidant activity, and antibacterial activity against four different bacteria. Chemometrics showed, that the enzyme used for the hydrolysis had a higher impact on clustering results than the geographical origin of the samples.
Funder
Research Council of Lithuania
Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre of Vytautas Magnus University
Subject
Plant Science,Health Professions (miscellaneous),Health (social science),Microbiology,Food Science
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