Acerola cherry grows in tropical regions. It contains a large amount of ascorbic acid (up to 4000 mg/100 g) but is not easy to preserve. It is very important to extend the preservation time of acerola cherries and maintain the ascorbic acid. Through single factor experiment and UV spectrophotometric method, the effect of five environmental factors (temperature, pH value, light, air, and metal ion) and four additives (sodium metabisulfite, EDTA, phytic acid and L-cysteine) on the content of ascorbic acid were investigated. Degradation curves of ascorbic acid and dehydroascorbic acid in acerola cherry pulp at 60°C were also explored. The results show that the influence of metal ions and air is far greater than other factors, the antioxidant effect of cysteine is higher than that of the other three additives and the degradation of dehydroascorbic acid occurred preferentially. This research provides theoretical support for the preservation of acerola cherry pulp.

The intestine of animals is a complex micro-ecosystem containing a large number of microbiomes, which is essential for the host’s health development. The Hainan black goat with good resistance and adaptability is a unique species in Hainan, China. These unique physiological characteristics are inseparable from their intestinal microbiota. In this study, high-throughput sequencing was used to investigate bacterial communities in different segments of the intestinal tract of Hainan black goat. The results showed that the indices of Chao1 and ACE in the cecum and colon were significantly greater than those in the ileum (p = 0.007, 0.018). According to PCoA, the intestinal flora composition of the cecum and colon is almost equivalent. In contexts of the phylum, Firmicutes, Bacteroidota, and Pseudomonadota were the dominant phyla in the gut of the Hainan black goat. While in context of the genus, the dominant groups in the gut of black goats mainly include Ruminococcaceae_UCG-005, Bacteroides, Paeniclostridium, Christensenellaceae_R-7_group, Rikenellaceae_RC9_gut_group, and Eubacterium coprostanoligenes _group, Prevotella_1, they have different proportions in different intestinal segments. The gut microbiota of Hainan black goat is mainly Firmicutes, Bacteroidota, and Pseudomonadota. Influenced by the intestinal location where they colonize, the large intestine has a more complex intestinal flora than the small intestine. In contrast, there are only minor differences between the caecum and the colon in the large intestine.