Chemical and technological properties of rose (Rosa canina L.) fruits grown wild in Turkey

Biochemical compositional and technological characterizations of black and white myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) fruits

“…This relationship was found to be as the follows. While the fruit density, porosity and projected area values of medlar fruits were established high, bulk density value was found low according to literature value (Demir and Özcan 2001). In addition, volume, projected area and terminal velocity values of medlar fruits were found higher than those of Demir and Özcan (2001).…”

“…Some technological properties of myrtle fruits used in experiment are shown in Table 5. Similar investigations have been made to evaluate the projected area, volume, bulk density, fruit density and terminal velocity by Demir and Özcan (2001) for rose fruits. The static and dynamic coefficients of friction for myrtle fruit determined with respect to iron sheet and galvanized steel surfaces are represented in Table 6.…”

“…Also, Özcan and Hacıseferoğulları (2007) established 4959.02 mg/kg Ca, 14909.08 mg/K, 1315.57 mg/kg Mg, 3668.56 mg/kg P and 701.26 mg/kg Na in strawberry fruits. Demir and Özcan (2001) determined 890.5 and 1023.9 mg/kg K, 1,850 and 2,200 mg/kg P, 162.7 and 183.9 mg/kg Mg and 146.7 and 133.3 mg/kg Ca in rose fruit samples growing wild in Hadim (Konya) and Kastamonu provices, respectively. Calcium is the major component of bone and assists in teeth development (Brody 1994).…”

“…The composition and mineral contents of the black and white myrtle fruits growing wild in Turkey are presented in Demir and Özcan (2001), Özcan and Hacıseferoğulları (2007) and Özcan et al (2005) (except for water soluble extract). These differences could be probably due to growth conditions, environmental factor,and fruit variety and sizes.…”

Rosa × alba: source of essential minerals and volatile oils

“…The functional properties of some Rosa species were attributable to a wide array of bioactive ingredients such as minerals, fatty acids, volatile oils, ascorbic acid, phenols, flavonoids, tannins and sugar [7][8][9][10][11] . Despite the substantial data on the phytochemistry of some Rosa species namely R. canina, there are a dearth of information about the chemical constituents of Rosa x alba.…”