Oil Content, Fatty Acid Composition, Physicochemical Properties, and Antioxidant Activity of Seed Oils of Ten Moroccan Pomegranate Cultivars

Table 3

Colour coordinates, physicochemical criteria, and antioxidant activity of pomegranate seed oil of ten Moroccan cultivars.

Cultivars	Colour coordinates					Chlorophyll content (mg/kg)	Pheophytin content (mg/kg)	K270	K232	IC50 (mg/mL)
	L	a	b	C	H (degree)
Sefri 1	91.55^bc ± 0.66	−13.85^bc ± 0.40	93.20^bc ± 0.53	94.22^bc ± 0.58	−81.55^cde ± 0.20	0.57^g ± 0.01	1.91^f ± 0.03	3.53^a ± 0.00	4.61^b ± 0.05	0.91^bc ± 0.03
Sefri 2	94.34^de ± 0.43	−13.78^bc ± 0.18	101.10^g ± 0.32	102.04^g ± 0.34	−82.24^b ± 0.08	0.49^e ± 0.00	1.65^e ± 0.01	3.62^a ± 0.03	4.76^bc ± 0.00	1.14^d ± 0.04
Sefri 3	95.12^e ± 0.44	−14.56^ab ± 0.09	97.66^f ± 0.05	98.74^f ± 0.05	−81.52^de ± 0.05	0.62^h ± 0.00	2.05^g ± 0.01	3.53^a ± 0.21	5.03^bcd ± 0.03	0.98^c ± 0.00
Sefri 4	87.20^a ± 0.41	−15.29^a ± 0.16	73.44^a ± 0.22	75.02^a ± 0.23	−78.24^g ± 0.108	0.31^c ± 0.00	1.02^c ± 0.01	3.58^a ± 0.00	4.59^ab ± 0.28	0.95^c ± 0.05
Sefri 5	93.37^cde ± 0.13	−13.88^bc ± 0.07	96.96^ef ± 0.10	97.94^ef ± 0.11	−81.86^bcd ± 0.03	0.18^b ± 0.00	0.59^b ± 0.00	3.53^a ± 0.00	5.39^d ± 0.00	0.80^ab ± 0.00
Sefri 6	85.61^a ± 1.43	−8.66^e ± 0.64	104.93^h ± 1.24	105.29^h ± 1.28	−85.28^a ± 0.29	1.87^j ± 0.03	3.23^h ± 0.09	3.45^a ± 0.02	5.01^bcd ± 0.00	1.76^e ± 0.01
Lahmer	90.64^b ± 0.23	−10.01^d ± 0.08	111.36^i ± 0.26	111.81^i ± 0.27	−84.86^a ± 0.30	1.30^i ± 0.01	3.87^i ± 0.06	3.67^a ± 0.00	5.34^d ± 0.13	0.94^c ± 0.01
Marrakchia	93.16^cd ± 0.25	−13.56^c ± 0.05	96.00^de ± 0.24	96.96^de ± 0.25	−81.96^bc ± 0.01	0.53^f ± 0.00	1.77^e ± 0.02	3.75^a ± 0.14	5.21^cd ± 0.00	0.69^a ± 0.03
Lhamdha	93.39^cde ± 0.20	−14.94^a ± 0.09	94.72^cd ± 0.17	95.89^cd ± 0.18	−81.04^f ± 0.04	0.12^a ± 0.00	0.39^a ± 0.01	3.56^a ± 0.02	4.67^bc ± 0.13	1.80^e ± 0.02
Bzeq Tir	94.90^de ± 0.05	−14.43^abc ± 0.07	93.01^b ± 0.06	94.13^b ± 0.06	−81.18^ef ± 0.04	0.43^d ± 0.00	1.44^d ± 0.01	3.65^a ± 0.04	4.06^a ± 0.00	1.00^cd ± 0.03

Values followed by the same letter within the same column were not significantly different according to Tukey’s HSD test (; n = 3).