Keywords
Fruit quality
Citrus aurantium L.
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Abstract
The work had as objecive the phisico-chemical caracterization of laranja-da-terra fruits. Five samples of 10 fruits were harvested in laranja-da-terra plants produced in home orchards of the municipality of Bom Jesus/PI and caracterized by evaluation of lenght and width, number of the seeds per fruits, weigth, soluble solids (SS), titulable acidity (TA), vitamin C and SS/AT ratio. Laranja-da-terra has good quality phisico-chemical and is a natural source of vitamin C with an average of 125.76 mg/100g of fresh fruit, low titratable acidity and high values of soluble solids and SS/AT ratio.
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Copyright (c) 2011 Gabriel Barbosa da Silva Júnior, Leonardo Fonseca da Rocha, Francisco Hélcio Canuto Amaral, Marcelo Luiz de Andrade, Raimundo Falcão Neto, Ítalo Herbert Lucena Cavalcante