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 2

Physicochemical and biochemical parameters of three apricot cultivars.

Water content (%)

Total soluble solids (°Bx)

pH

Total acidity (% of malic acid)

SS/TA ratio

Citric acid (g/kg FW)

Malic acid (g/kg FW)

Ascorbic acid (g/kg FW)

Quinic acid (g/kg FW)

Fumaric acid (g/kg FW)

Sum of acids (g/kg FW)

Total carotenoids (μg of β-carotene/g FW)

Delpatriarca

82.25 ± 0.32^b

15.33 ± 0.06^c

3.33 ± 0.04^b

2.39 ± 0.04^a

6.42 ± 0.11^b

13.23 ± 0.75^a

12.2 ± 0.97^a

0.38 ± 0.06^a

1.19 ± 0.58^b

0.35 ± 0.05^b

27.35 ± 0.90^a

11.67 ± 0.39^c

Canino

79.75 ± 0.35^c

17.20 ± 0.001^a

3.76 ± 0.03^a

2.11 ± 0.001^b

8.14 ± 0.001^a

13.02 ± 0.42^b

7.78 ± 1.10^c

0.25 ± 0.04^b

2.96 ± 0.36^a

0.14 ± 0.01^c

24.15 ± 0.58^b

113.67 ± 1.76^a

Maoui

83.77 ± 0.14^a

16.03 ± 0.12^b

3.88 ± 0.15^a

2.00 ± 0.03^c

8.00 ± 0.11^a

6.97 ± 0.61^c

9.77 ± 0.61^b

0.16 ± 0.02^c

1.64 ± 0.12^b

0.67 ± 0.11^a

19.21 ± 1.46^c

19.03 ± 0.81^b

Values are means ± standard deviation (SD) of three replications. Data followed by different letters are significantly different from each other according to LSD test at .