Caracterização Físico-Química de Polpas de Frutas do Bioma Amazônia

• Autor(a) principal: Virgolin, Lara Borghi [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127855
• topic: Tecnologia de alimentos; Polpa de frutas; Frutas - Composição; Ecossistemas - Amazônia; Compostos bioativos; Antioxidantes

The Amazon biome has fruit with unique sensory characteristics and high concentration of nutrients. However, despite their nutritional and economic potential, these fruits lack an established commercialized market base. These fruits have yet to be marketed properly because they are almost always picked from the wild. An additional consequence is that technical and scientific data on them is scarce or often non-existent. In light of these factors, the aim of this study was to evaluate the physical-chemical composition of pulp from the abiu, achachairú, araza, bilimbi, and yellow mangosteen fruits from the Brazilian Amazon Biome in different harvests. The fruit pulps were evaluated in terms of their total soluble solid content, titratable acidity levels, total and reducing sugars and pH. Ascorbic acid content, total anthocyanin content, yellow flavonoid content, total carotenoid content, total phenolic compounds and total antioxidant activity (capturing the ABTS·+ free radical, as well as by capturing the DPPH. free radical, and through the measurement of iron reducing activity via the FRAP assay) of the fruit pulps were also determined. The results of physico-chemical parameters of the pulp fruits in different harvests were analyzed by the T Student test, variance analysis followed by Tukey test, correlation analysis and principal components analysis using the Statistica 7.0 software. There were differences in the physico-chemical parameters of fruit pulp evaluated in different harvests. The achachairú pulp had the highest quantity of total phenolic compounds and for the most significant antioxidant activity; this study also found that the araza pulp had the highest carotenoid content and that the yellow mangosteen pulp had the highest yellow flavonoid content. In this study, the ABTS.+, DPPH., and FRAP methods revealed a positive correlation between total phenolic compound content and antioxidant...