Antioxidants Activity and Color Evaluation of Date Fruit of Selected Cultivars Commercially Available in the United States

Table 2

Hunter color values of whole dates and date paste from different cultivars.

Date cultivars	Whole fruit			Ground fruit (paste)
	Deglet Nour (Algeria) (DNA)	19.35 ± 2.59^abc	5.04 ± 0.93^a	4.54 ± 0.62^a	42.13 ± 1.14^b	3.98 ± 0.49^c	9.71 ± 0.47^b
Deglet Nour (California) (DNC)	21.06 ± 0.85^a	4.28 ± 1.35^a	4.21 ± 0.45^ab	47.05 ± 1.37^a	3.89 ± 1.43^c	11.50 ± 3.51^b
Deglet Nour (Tunisia) (DNT)	18.40 ± 0.61^bc	4.35 ± 0.44^a	3.61 ± 0.43^b	37.58 ± 3.68^c	6.15 ± 1.66^ab	8.63 ± 1.68^b
Shahia (Tunisia) (SHT)	20.19 ± 0.34^ab	4.51 ± 1.34^a	3.68 ± 0.70^b	45.46 ± 1.04^ab	4.44 ± 0.20^bc	10.85 ± 0.33^b
Barni (Saudi Arabia) (BSA)	19.26 ± 1.36^c	1.80 ± 0.37^b	2.20 ± 0.35^c	37.56 ± 4.30^c	5.85 ± 2.14^abc	9.35 ± 2.83^b
Khudri (Saudi Arabia) (KSA)	17.81 ± 0.41^c	4.81 ± 0.81^a	2.58 ± 0.09^c	42.84 ± 1.44^b	6.86 ± 1.56^bc	15.23 ± 3.82^a

Data is mean of eight replicates ± standard error. Means with different letters in the same column are significantly different at .