Variability of total carotenoids in C. Moschata genotypes.

• Autor(a) principal: CARVALHO, L. M. J. DE
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: CARVALHO, J. L. V. de, BORGES, R. M. E., KASER, I. M., LIMA, V. G., SOUSA, D. S. F. DE
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1090676
• topic: Carotenóides; C moschata; Beta-caroteno; Abóbora; Genótipo; Saúde Pública; Vitamina A; Pumpkins

Nowadays, the vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is still a public health concern, being one of the most important components of the high rate of morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries. There is a high prevalence of night blindness caused by deficiency of vitamin A. Children and pregnant women are particularly affected. Many pumpkins (C. moschata) genotypes present a great variability of carotenoid content mainly the beta-carotene. The objective of this work is to evaluate the variability of beta-carotene among pumpkins genotypes. Twenty biofortified pumpkins cultivated at Embrapa Table Coast land and Semiarid were evaluated regarding beta-carotene contents. The analyses were carried out by High rformance Liquid Chromatography. The pumkinks showed a large variability in the contents of total carotenoids varying, in fresh pumpkins from 699.06 (genotype 25) to 124.60 μg/g (genotype 26), from 106.96 (genotype 26) to 655.54 μg/g (genotype 25) in samples cooked in boiling water and 117.55 (genotype 19) and 650.54 μg/g (genotype 25) in steamed cooked, respectively.