Assessment of Nutritional, Technological, and Commercial Apricot Quality Criteria of the Moroccan Cultivar “Maoui” Compared to Introduced Spanish Cultivars “Canino” and “Delpatriarca” towards Suitable Valorization

Table 1

Physical parameters of three apricot cultivars.

Fruit length (mm)

Fruit width (mm)

Fruit thickness (mm)

Fruit weight (g)

Stone weight (g)

Mesocarp (%)

Firmness (kg/cm^2)

L Un-Blush

a Un-Blush

b Un-Blush

L Blush

a Blush

b Blush

Delpatriarca

24.87 ± 1.55^c

32.07 ± 2.11^b

30.95 ± 1.82^b

24.52 ± 2.02^b

1.78 ± 0.26^c

92.74 ± 0.99^b

2.66 ± 1.18^b

76.26 ± 2.72^a

1.62 ± 0.79^b

28.68 ± 3.71^c

70.38 ± 5.01^a

7.70 ± 7.07^b

26.07 ± 3.50^c

Canino

45.22 ± 1.41^a

44.87 ± 1.59^a

40.77 ± 2.11^a

42.47 ± 4.14^a

2.69 ± 0.16^a

93.61 ± 0.77^a

3.74 ± 1.21^a

65.86 ± 1.21^b

22.92 ± 2.12^a

54.55 ± 1.96^a

61.82 ± 3.11^b

26.79 ± 3.72^a

51.74 ± 4.54^a

Maoui

32.14 ± 1.05^b

30.11 ± 1.44^b

32.48 ± 1.56^b

20.08 ± 1.10^c

2.03 ± 0.08^b

89.17 ± 0.69^c

1.95 ± 0.94^b

72.74 ± 2.99^a

3.03 ± 1.76^b

37.79 ± 5.67^b

72.19 ± 2.06^a

8.19 ± 2.32^b

43.95 ± 4.85^b

Values are means ± standard deviation (SD); mean value represents the mean of thirty measures for each physical parameter. Data followed by different letters are significantly different from each other according to LSD test at .