@article{article_430425, title={Physicochemical and Nutritional Properties of Bitter Melon at Four Maturation Stages}, journal={Eurasian Journal of Food Science and Technology}, volume={1}, pages={36–40}, year={2017}, author={Ozdemır, Yasin and Ozturk, Aysun and Tufekcı, Senem and Keskınel, Ozge and Kostı, Rena İ.}, keywords={antioxidant activit,nutrient,total phenol}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">The purpose of the present
study was to investigate the physicochemical characteristics of bitter melon
fruit at four </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">maturation
stages. Results showed that during the maturation period, ascorbic acid,
carotene, total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of the bitter
melons were changed between </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">5.16±0.03-7.26±0.03 mg/g dry
weight, 78.91±0.86-190.28±2.23 μg/g dry weight, 5.62 ±0.2-8.25 ±0.1 mg gallic
acid equivalent/g dry weight and 653.84±20.53-822.81±19.75 </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">mg ascorbic acid equivalent /g dry weight respectively. Moreover, the values of
Ca, Cu, Fe, K and Mg ranged between </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">172.33±7.2-196.82±5.1, 14.33±0.1-16.32±0.2, 11.38±41.8-16.58±16.3,
1670.38±84.4-1922.67±95.3 and 106.79±16.0-145.41±28.1 </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">mg/100 g dry weight respectively. Results
indicated that maturation stages highly affected nutritional and functional
value of bitter melon. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={2}, publisher={İlknur BAĞDATLI}