Vitamin Analysis, Trace Elements Content, and Their Extractabilities in Tetrapleura tetraptera

Table 1

Vitamin A, C, and E and beta-carotene composition in pulp, seeds, and whole fruit of T. tetraptera.

	Attribute
Sample	Vitamin A (mg/g)	Vitamin C (mg/g)	Vitamin E (mg/g)	Beta-carotene (mg/g)
Pulp	0.00319 ± 0.0009^a	0.242 ± 0.05^b	0.923 ± 0.025^b	0.0068 ± 0.002^a
Seed	0.00848 ± 0.0030^a	0.880 ± 0.18^a	2.617 ± 0.201^a	0.0168 ± 0.006^a
W. fruit	0.00679 ± 0.0006^a	0.411 ± 0.02^b	0.013 ± 0.005^c	0.0136 ± 0.001^a
Sig. level	0.1814 ns	0.0027	<0.0001	0.0851 ns

ns = not significant (i.e., ); W. fruit = whole fruit; very significant (i.e., ); extremely significant (i.e., ); and Sig. Level = significance level. Means in a column with the same letter superscripts are not significantly different (), whereas means with different letter superscripts are significantly different ().