The vitamin and selenium contents of apricot fruit of different varieties cultivated in different geographical regions

Food Chemistry

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-212

  Munzuroglu, Omer ^a   Karatas, Fikret ^a   Geckil, Hikmet ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apricot; HPLC; Prunus armeniaca; Selenium; Vitamins; Carotene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; SULFUR; VITAMIN;

APRICOT; ARTICLE; CULTIVAR; FLUOROMETRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHY; HARVEST; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILD TYPE;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS ARMENIACA;

EID: 0041620257     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-8146(03)00064-5     Document Type: Article

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