Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Preliminary Study On The Preparation Of Honey Tablets With Aerosil 200 As Adsorbent By Direct Compression Method

Further investigation on the preparation of honey tablets was carried out with the help of Aerosil 200 as adsorbent to dry up the liquid honey and the addition of manitol, lactose, aspartam, magnesium stearate strawberry as flavouring agent, and pink colouring agent .The tablets resulted had a good in appearance while the tablets. friability of the honey tablets were good i.e less than one percent. This study elaborate the preparation of honey tablet with the help of absorbent i.e Aerosil 200 as one of ingredients (in addition to lactose manitol, colouring and flavouring agent and magnesium stearate). Since the usage of honey is as an energy supplier, there are no report so far that search about tabletting of honey. Our previous work with honey was on the lozenges tablet and granules (6,7) Tabletted honey, if possible, can be beneficial to people such as sportsman, since they can use the tablet as a source of energy. However, honey contain a high content of water, i.e about 17 %, which make it difficult to form a tablet. A very good absorbent is necessary to dry up “liquid honey”. In this study, honey was dried using Aerosil 200 and then lactose and manitol were added and compressed into lozenges tablet, after the addition of colouring agent, magnesium stearate as lubricant and strawberry as the flavouring agent. Lozenges are solid tablet preparations, containing one or more medications, usually in a flavoured, sweetened base which are intended to dissolve or disintegrate slowly in the mouth. In the effort to make a good quality of honey tablets, water content of honey was analysed. It was found that water content was 19,59 %. When honey was ashed there was 0,46 % of residue. It might possible that honey contained some material such as pollen, impurities such as dirt and fraction of bee heeves which contribute to the amount of residue. However, it was lower than the requirement mentioned in Indonesian Standard for Industry ie. 0,50 %. The acidity of honey was investigated and showed that the acidity was 40.6 meq/kg. It might possible that the acidity was higher than 40 caused by fermentation occured during storage. The amount of solid content found was 0,46 %, while standard allows up to 0.50 % of solid content.