Jujube trees, herbal medicine material, produce not only their fruit but also jujube honey for bee and human’ food sources. Although jujube is an important honey plant after acacia bloom, the research was done with 15-year-old jujube trees grown in ChungDo-Gun, which there was no information on jujube floral nectar. According to the research, jujube nectar secretion mostly happens during dawn and morning for two days. The average number of inflorescence per tree is 638.1 according to the research. And also, the average number of flowers per inflorescence is 64.4. The amount of nectar secretion is 11.6 ul on average per flower, and hypothesized nectar secretion from 15-year-old tree per tree is 476.682 ul.
Also,a jujube tree has 545.5ul hypothesized nectar secretion per ha by the research.
In order to use as a new funtional food material, we analyzed the chemical components including the organic compounds, minerals and Vitamic C of jujube honey which were produced in South Korea. The condensed rate of methanol extraction in honey was 87.02% and main organic compounds that extract by organic solvents in GC-MS analysis were trichloromethane, triptane, 2-formylbutane, acetoxyethane, butyraldehyde, butanoic acid, cyclopentane, propanoic acid and so on. Also, main aromatic compounds that extract by organic solvents in SPME analysis were octacosane, pyrobenzol, hexatriacontane, cyclopentasiloxane, pelargonaldehyde, 3-azabenzonitrile, 4-pyridinecarbonitrile, nicotinonitrile, cyclohexatriene and many more. As proximate composition, crude ash content was higher than acacia honey(0.05%) by 0.698%, and crude protein was higher than acacia honey(0.10%) by 0.27%, but crude fat was lower content than acacia honey(0.44%) by 0.26%. Free sugar that analyze by HPLC consisted of fructose 37.47%, glucose 25.22%, and total sugars was 62.69%. Minerals by ICP analysis were detected total 19 kinds, K 12.575ppm > Na 1.8155ppm > Zn 1.3325ppm > Ca 0.6335ppm etc. Vitamin C was not detected and antioxidation test result by DPPH freeradical scavenge effect was hardly but high somewhat compared to acacia honey.