Physical and chemical characteristics of pomegranates

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1200-1203

  Drogoudi, Pavlina D ^a   Tsipouridis, Constantinos ^a   Michailidis, Zisis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Ascorbic acid; Frost resistance; Fruit and seed color; Total anthocyanins; Total phenolics

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FROST RESISTANCE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; FRUIT CHROMA; POMEGRANATES; SOLUBLE SOLIDS CONTENT (SSC);

FRUITS;

ACIDITY; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; FROST RESISTANCE; FRUITS;

LYTHRACEAE; PUNICA GRANATUM;

EID: 22444436145     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.5.1200     Document Type: Article

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