Physical characters and antioxidant, sugar, and mineral nutrient contents in fruit from 29 apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) cultivars and hybrids

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 10754-10760

  Drogoudi, Pavlina D ^a   Vemmos, Stavros ^b   Pantelidis, Georgios ^a   Petri, Evangelia ^b   Tzoutzoukou, Chrysoula ^b   Karayiannis, Irene ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apricot; Cultivars and hybrids; Fruit color; Fruit maturation time; Fruit weight; Mineral nutrients; Prunus armeniaca l; Sugars; Total antioxidant capacity; Total carotenolds; Total phenolics

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CARBOHYDRATE; CAROTENOID; MINERAL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PRUNUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CARBOHYDRATES; CAROTENOIDS; CHIMERA; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; MINERALS; PHENOLS; PRUNUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRUNUS ARMENIACA;

EID: 57849163737     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf801995x     Document Type: Article

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