Figures & data
Table 1. Fruit weight, diameter, 100-aril weight, aril yield, and juice yield of six Chinese pomegranate cultivars.
Figure 1. Pomegranate fruits, arils, seeds, and juices of six cultivars from China. A, fruits; B, arils; C, seeds; D, fruit juices.
Table 2. Total soluble solids (TSS), total reducing sugar (TS), titratable acid (TA), pH, and TS/TA of the juice of six Chinese pomegranate cultivars.
Figure 2. PCA biplot of the physicochemical characteristics from pomegranate fruit of different cultivars.
Table 3. Total phenolic, flavonoid, and proanthocyanidin contents of the juice, peel, and seeds of six Chinese pomegranate cultivars.
Table 4. DPPH, ABTS radical scavenging activity, and FRAP of pomegranate juice, peel, and seeds.
Table 5. Correlation matrix of the total phenolics (TP), total flavonoids (TF), total proanthocyanidins (TPC) and antioxidant activities of the pomegranate juice, peel, and seeds.
Table 6. Retention times, UV/Vis spectra, and characteristic ions of phenolic components in pomegranate peel.
Figure 3. The UPLC-DAD-ESI/MSn chromatograms of pomegranate peel extracts. A, total ion chromatogram (TIC); B, UV chromatogram at 254 nm; C, extracted ion chromatogram (EIC) of punicalin (3, at m/z 781/601), gallic acid (4, at m/z 169/125), α/β-punicalagin (5, 6, at m/z 1083/541), and ellagic acid (10, at m/z 301/229).
Figure 4. UPLC-DAD-ESI/MSn spectra of phenolic components in pomegranate peel extracts.
Table 7. Phenolic contents of the peels of six pomegranate cultivars.
