Potential Applicability of Cocoa Pulp (Theobroma cacao L) as an Adjunct for Beer Production

Table 2

Determination of the mineral composition of pulp cocoa sample (mg/kg).

Elements	Wavelength λ (nm)	LODm (mg/kg)	LOQm (mg/kg)	Mean ± standard deviation
Al	167.019	0.980	3.280	1.742 ± 0.01
Ca	422.673	1348.000	4.490	13.343 ± 0.01
Cd	228.802	0.060	0.196	0.143 ± 0.01
Co	228.615	0.013	0.043	—
Cr	206.158	0.030	0.100	0.970 ± 0.01
Cu	213.598	0.050	0.170	0.419 ± 0.01
Fe	259.940	0.470	1.570	3.388 ± 0.01
K	769.897	0.700	2.338	1459.842 ± 0.01
Li	610.365	0.005	0.017	—
Mg	280.270	0.500	1.670	237.230 ± 0.01
Mn	259.372	0.005	0.015	0.378 ± 0.01
Mo	204.598	0.103	0.340	0.106 ± 0.01
Na	330.298	3.410	11.380	98.966 ± 0.01
P	213.618	0.056	0.185	365.797 ± 0.01
Pb	220.353	0.050	0.168	—
Se	203.985	0.135	0.450	3.251 ± 0.01
V	311.837	0.007	0.022	—
Zn	213.857	0.017	0.058	1.535 ± 0.01

The values are means of three replicates. LOD: limits of detection; LOQ: limits of quantification.