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

Table 2

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

Samples	Moisture content (%)	Water extract (%)	Total ash (%)	Acid-insoluble ash (%)	Crude fiber (%)
Ambari (A-b)	5.35 ± 0.15^a	56.89 ± 2.27^ab	6.33 ± 0.51^a	0.62 ± 0.51^b	13.04 ± 0.34^c
Chiniya (C-b)	5.32 ± 0.42^a	51.25 ± 0.99^a	6.24 ± 0.63^a	0.46 ± 0.03^a	8.82 ± 0.09^a
Gumti (G-b)	5.37 ± 0.28^a	71.46 ± 2.88^c	6.52 ± 0.37^ab	0.57 ± 0.03^b	10.27 ± 0.1^b
Takda-78 (T78-b)	5.39 ± 0.4^a	64.09 ± 4.04^bc	7.53 ± 0.26^b	0.75 ± 0.04^c	12.99 ± 0.22^c
Tinali (T-b)	5.36 ± 0.25^a	51.03 ± 3.15^a	7.11 ± 0.11^ab	0.84 ± 0.04^c	15.47 ± 0.34^d

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