Cornelian Cherry (Cornus Mas L.) Research Activities in Turkey

Some Fruit Characteristics of Selected Cornelian Cherries (Cornus mas L.) from Montenegro

“…Pectic substances are found in varying amounts in fruits, and their importance is in preventing, reducing and and the consumer acceptability of cornelian cherry fruits. Tural and Koca (2008), Yalcinkaya (2009) and Yilmaz et al (2009) reported yellow, red, light red, dark pink, pink and dark red color among the cornelian cherry fruits, which supports our findings.…”

“…Thanks to the many studies that have confirmed the high nutritional value of the fruit of cornelian cherry, today the activities on the selection and breeding of cornelian cherry have intensified in many countries with rich natural population including Ukraine (Klimenko 2004), Serbia (Bijelić et al 2010;Bošnjaković et al 2012), Slovakia (Brindza 2006), Czech Republic (Dokoupil and Rezniček 2012), Iran (Hassanpour et al 2012), Turkey (Yalcinkaya 2009;Ercisli et al 2007;Ercisli et al 2011), Montenegro (Jaćimović et al 2003). As a result of these researches, the cornelian cherry commenced to be grown in plantations and it can be concluded that it will be a very promising fruit whose time is yet to come (Rop et al 2010).…”

Quality characteristics of Turkish delight (lokum) as influenced by different concentrations of cornelian cherry pulp

“…There are approximately 800,000 cornelian cherry trees in Turkey, and 11 tons of cornelian cherry fruit is produced per annum (Anonymous, ). Cornelian cherry fruit belongs to stone fruit group and contains high amounts of vitamin C (97.4–120.4 mg/100 g) and is rich in tannin, potassium, organic acids, phenols, and anthocyanins (Demir & Kalyoncu, ; Karadeniz, Kalkısım, & Baltacı, ; Yalçınkaya, ). The fruit is either consumed directly or as in stone fruits groups, stones are separated and remaining pulp is processed into various products such as jam, marmalade, pestil (a dried form of marmalade produced in the eastern part of Turkey), paste, and sherbet or is dried (Celik, Bakirci, & Şat, ; Tural & Koca, ).…”