Research Article
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 ± 2.59abc | 5.04 ± 0.93a | 4.54 ± 0.62a | 42.13 ± 1.14b | 3.98 ± 0.49c | 9.71 ± 0.47b | Deglet Nour (California) (DNC) | 21.06 ± 0.85a | 4.28 ± 1.35a | 4.21 ± 0.45ab | 47.05 ± 1.37a | 3.89 ± 1.43c | 11.50 ± 3.51b | Deglet Nour (Tunisia) (DNT) | 18.40 ± 0.61bc | 4.35 ± 0.44a | 3.61 ± 0.43b | 37.58 ± 3.68c | 6.15 ± 1.66ab | 8.63 ± 1.68b | Shahia (Tunisia) (SHT) | 20.19 ± 0.34ab | 4.51 ± 1.34a | 3.68 ± 0.70b | 45.46 ± 1.04ab | 4.44 ± 0.20bc | 10.85 ± 0.33b | Barni (Saudi Arabia) (BSA) | 19.26 ± 1.36c | 1.80 ± 0.37b | 2.20 ± 0.35c | 37.56 ± 4.30c | 5.85 ± 2.14abc | 9.35 ± 2.83b | Khudri (Saudi Arabia) (KSA) | 17.81 ± 0.41c | 4.81 ± 0.81a | 2.58 ± 0.09c | 42.84 ± 1.44b | 6.86 ± 1.56bc | 15.23 ± 3.82a |
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Data is mean of eight replicates ± standard error. Means with different letters in the same column are significantly different at .
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