Physio Chemical Properties of Pomegranate Varitieas Collected from Peshawar Local Market

Abstract

The present study was conducted at the Agricultural chemistry Lab in the University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan to evaluate the physico-chemical properties of two pomegranate verities: Bedana and kandahari. The colour, average weight, edible index and waste index of Bedana observed yellowish, 200.00g, 31.45% and 65.00% while of kandahari was dark red, 250.00g, 35.55% and 60.55% respectively. The average total soluble solid (TSS), reducing sugar, acidity, PH, moisture and ash of Bedana showed 150Brix, 7.00%, 15.68, 2.87, 78.63% and 0.4% while of Kandahari 170Brix, 8.20%, 11.76, 2.22, 80.26% and 0.6% respectively. The proximate composition of Na and K were found 100mg/g and 80mg/g of Bedana while 150mg/g and 220mg/g of Kandahari. Among different parameters of Bedana and Kandahari, the dark red colour of Kandahari were eyes appealing to consumers, compared to Bedana Varity. With the various nutritional benefits, the fruits could be recommended for commercial exploitation and preparation of different value added products.

Investigation on the chemical properties of some pomegranate cultivars (Punica granatum L.) grown in the Messaad Algerian arid region under drip irrigation

“…As shown in Table 2, The pH value obtained for KH1 and HM1 is higher than some reported for Spanish, South African, Omani, Moroccan, Tunisian, Indian, Turkian, Iranian, Egyptian, Pakistani, Georgian pomegranate cultivars (Tehranifar et al, 2010;Ozlekci et al, 2011;Gadže et al, 2012;Caliskan & Bayazit, 2013;Ismail et al, 2014;Zaouay et al, 2014;Fernandes et al, 2017;Hota & Dahiya, 2017;Boussaa et al, 2018;Hmid et al, 2018;Usman et al, 2018;Díaz-Perez et al, 2019;Sassi et al, 2020;Meena et al, 2021;El Moujahed et al, 2022), while the pH value obtained for SL1 is closer to the values recorded on some Moroccan varieties such as "Jaune Marrakech" (Legua et al, 2011;Martínez et al, 2012), on Algerian cultivar "Doux de Koléa" (Meziane et al, 2016), on some Indian varieties such as Ganesh and Bhagwa (Hota & Dahiya, 2017) and on some pomegranate cultivars grown in Georgia (Díaz-Perez et al, 2019). Alcaraz-Mármol et al (2017) registered a higher pH than the reported values in the range of 6.02 to 6.78 for cultivars grown in Spain such as Mollar de Elche, Mollar de Orihuela and Valenciana de Albatera.…”