Sugars, organic acids, and phenolic acids of exotic seasonable tropical fruits

Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 267-276

  Lee, Pin Rou ^a   Tan, Rou Ming ^b   Yu, Bin ^c   Curran, Philip ^c   Liu, Shao Quan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Department of Mathematics   (Singapore)

^c Firmenich Asia Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acids; Fruits; Organic acid; Phenolic acid; Singapore; Sugar; Tropical fruit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878236791     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00346651311327927     Document Type: Article

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