Nutritional and functional characteristics of ripe persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) fruit

Abstract

Persimmon (Diospyros kaki L), is an ornamental tree known for its delicious berry like fruits. The fruit is appreciated for its nutritional value, health benefits and rich flavor. The physico-chemical properties of the fruit are an important indicator for its quality. Persimmon fruit part varies with sufficient amount of nutritional characteristics. Therefore, fruit with and without peel had significant effect on the chemical characteristics. Hence the study was under taken to analyze the physical and nutritional characteristics of Fuyu cultivar of persimmon. On ripening, the fruit consists of 7.98 Kg/cm 2 firmness with flesh content of 85.82%. In case of nutritional characteristics, the fruit with peel had greater amount of functional components like fibre (0.69%), ascorbic acid (15.90 mg/100g), β-carotene (250 mg/100g) and total phenols (3.87 mg/100g).

Quality (Physico-chemical) attributes of Fuyu persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) fruit

“…The fruit firmness was analysed to be 7.20 kg/cm 2 . The results obtained for firmness are earlier reported by Gautam et al (2020) [11] to be 7.98 kg/cm 2 . The flesh (%), peel (%) and seed (%) was recorded to be 90.23±3.03, 7.85±3.29 and 2.22±0.89, respectively.…”

“…The result exhibited by the 10 fruits which were randomly chosen came to have a general (average) weight consisting of 193.50±10.93 g. The length and diameter were reported to be 48.46±2.12 and 71.08±3.18 mm, respectively. The results obtained were generally near of Unal et al (2018) [30] and Gautam et al (2020) [11] . Unal et al…”

“…(2018) [30] noted mean length and diameter 50.25 mm and 71.64 mm, respectively and by Gautam et al (2020) [11] to be 46.15 and 64.17 mm, respectively. Number of fruits/kg and seeds/fruit were 5 to 6 and 2 to 4.…”

“…Hadi et al (2017) [12] recorded L colour value of 36.50 for lightness of bigger sized fruit, 26.20 and 16.00 for yellow and redness of small sized, respectively. The colour of fruit analysed by Royal Horticulture Society Colour Chart for fruit peel and flesh belongs to orange group (28 A) and yellow-orange (22 A) for fuyu persimmon as given by Gautam et al (2020) [11] , respectively. The fruit firmness was analysed to be 7.20 kg/cm 2 .…”

“…(2020) [11] . Hadi et al (2017) [12] recorded L colour value of 36.50 for lightness of bigger sized fruit, 26.20 and 16.00 for yellow and redness of small sized, respectively.…”