PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POMEGRANATE FRUIT (Punica granatum L.), OF CV. KARAMUSTAFA
Abstract
Pomegranate is well-adapted fruit species to arid and semi-arid conditions and highly valued crop widely cultivated in Mediterranean and Near Asia countries. The most important pomegranate cultivars in Macedonia are Bejnarija, Lifanka and Karamustafa. The objective of this study was the physical parameters of the pomegranate fruit and chemical properties of juice from pomegranate fruit Karamustafa cultivar, grown in two different location of R. Macedonia. The physical parameters including fruit fresh weight, percentage of grain (%), weight of 100 berries (g), percentage of juice (%) and morphological characteristics (equatorial diameter, calyx diameter, fruit height without calyx, total fruit height, calyx height). Based on the results we found significant differences in the weight of the fruit, the content of total acids and the content of total polyphenols in the juice.
The intellectual property and copyright on the original content of all scientific contributions in the published paper shall remain with the authors. Authors give permission to the JAPS owner to publish the paper. All authors agree to publish the paper under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Once the paper is accepted for publication in JAPS, all authors need to sign the Author/s statement & copyright notice.
