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

Table 6

Theaflavin (TF), thearubigin (TR), color, and brightness of black tea prepared from different clones of tea plant.

Sample	TF (%)	TR (%)	Color (%)	Brightness (%)	TF : TR
Ambari (A-b)	0.885 ± 0.01^ab	8.29 ± 0.27^abc	4.11 ± 0.51^a	25.43 ± 0.51^a	1 : 9.36
Chiniya (C-b)	0.748 ± 0.04^a	9.64 ± 0.14^c	4.42 ± 0.63^a	25.65 ± 0.23^ab	1 : 12.8
Gumti (G-b)	0.876 ± 0.028^ab	8.5 ± 0.88^bc	5.13 ± 0.37^b	25.74 ± 0.3^ab	1 : 9.71
Takda-78 (T78-b)	0.928 ± 0.03^bc	8 ± 0.24^ab	6.05 ± 0.26^c	25.79 ± 0.44^ab	1 : 8.61
Tinali (T-b)	1.07 ± 0.01^c	6.86 ± 0.15^a	6.24 ± 0.12^c	25.89 ± 0.12^b	1 : 6.36

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