Phytochemicals and Quality of Green and Black Teas from Different Clones of Tea Plant

Table 1

Moisture content, water extract, total ash, acid-insoluble ash, and the crude fiber content of green tea prepared from different clones of the tea plant.

Samples	Moisture content (%)	Water extract (%)	Total ash (%)	Acid-insoluble ash (%)	Crude fiber (%)
Ambari (A-g)	5.4 ± 0.25^a	52.16 ± 4.44^a	5.516 ± 0.33^a	0.47 ± 0.01^b	9.39 ± 0.71^bc
Chiniya (C-g)	5.3 ± 0.4^a	44.36 ± 3.32^a	5.25 ± 0.45^a	0.36 ± 0.08^a	6.73 ± 0.43^a
Gumti (G-g)	5.4 ± 0.3^a	65.89 ± 2.33^b	5.524 ± 0.12^a	0.46 ± 0.07^b	7.96 ± 0.80^ab
Takda-78 (T78-g)	5.35 ± 0.35^a	60.83 ± 2.435^b	5.702 ± 0.19^a	0.63 ± 0.01^c	9.92 ± 0.73^c
Tinali (T-g)	5.38 ± 0.3^a	45.22 ± 2.59^a	5.135 ± 0.12^a	0.70 ± 0.07^d	12.97 ± 0.73^d

Values are means of triplicate ± standard deviations. Values in the columns bearing the different superscripts are significantly different ().