The effect consumption of non- alcoholic beer (Ma-al-Shaeer) on the total antioxidant capacity level in young people

Background & Ma-al-Shaeerisanon-alcoholicbeer which usually consumed in the younger generation in Islamic countries. It is regarded as having antioxidant compounds and in additiontohavingthe desirable organoleptic properties. Therefore, thisstudy designed to determine the effect of non- alcoholic beer (Ma-al-Shaeer) intake on the total antioxidant capacity (TAC) levelsinyoung people.
Material & In an interventional study,50 students including; 25 girls and 25 boys were selectedas simple random. Then,4ml ofblood was takenfroman individual before and after consumption of 240 millitr Ma-al-Shaeer respectively .After separating the serum, total antioxidant levels was measured by Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) method. Thespectrophotometric method was used for measuring the level sof uric acid and total thiols (Hu's method). Statistical analysis was done by software SPSS, version 17. It was used for determination mean, standard deviation, number and percent and also one-way ANOVA test for comparison of variables. P The mean age of samples 20±1.2 year. It was observed significant differenceinmean of total antioxidant level in subjectsbefore and after intervention (1312.3±301 μ mol /lvs.1374.4±345 μ mol/l) (P= 0.0001). But, there was no significant differenceinserumuricacidlevels of subjects. It was observed significant difference between mean serum levels of totalthiols of subjects in before and after intervention (0.42 ± 0.22 mg/ dl vs. 0.59 ± 0.18 mg/dl) (P= 0.0001). There was a significantpositive correlation between consumption of total antioxidant level and totalthiol of subjects in before(r=1, P Results showed thatnon-alcoholic drink Ma-al-Shaeer dramatically increased serum TAC and protein thiols in subjects. According to effect of antioxidant in health, it seems increase of antioxidant power in Ma-al-Shaeer can be analyzed which requires to more extensive investigation.