Preparation of honey Effervescent tablet from processed stingless bee's honey / Budris Iskandar

Stingless bees are a small bee from the species of Trigona or Meliponine and known as Kelulut bee in Malaysia is the type of honey that has a high medicinal beneficial than other bee species which had alleged by the traditional medical practitioner. Furthermore, stingless bees are easier to handle compared to honey bees that are often lost, always abandon their hive, and are vul-nerable to disease .The main purpose of this study to formulate and prepare an effervescent tablet containing extracts of process honey and to perform the study of effervescence time, pH, and solubility of the prepared tablet .The effect on pH , refractive index , moisture content and hygroscopicity at various temperature levels (40℃ , 60℃, 80 ℃) for 30 minutes were evaluated using the analyse of heating treatment . Based on the result, heating process at 60℃ is the opti-mal temperature for process honey. After that, for effervescent tablet, the physical properties such as pH , effervescent time and solubility were being tested at 3 different formulation . The result shows that the formulation is the second formulation.