Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland
Apples are the most important species in Polish fruit production, and their fresh fruit and processing products occupy a very important place in the European and world food economies. A natural process on the apple market is the replacement of older cultivars with new ones. Consequently, breeding wo...
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| author | Ewa Szpadzik Karolina Molska-Kawulok Tomasz Krupa Sebastian Przybyłko |
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| description | Apples are the most important species in Polish fruit production, and their fresh fruit and processing products occupy a very important place in the European and world food economies. A natural process on the apple market is the replacement of older cultivars with new ones. Consequently, breeding work is being carried out all over the world to obtain new, attractive apple cultivars. In this work, four new apple hybrids obtained in the Department of Pomology and Horticulture Economics at the University of Life Sciences in Warsaw (WULS—SGGW), i.e., two red-skinned hybrids (‘I’P’ and ‘TL’) and two green-skinned hybrids (‘GL’ and ‘LG’), were tested for their main physico-chemical characteristics after harvest and after storage, as well as for their consumer acceptability in a comparison with three popular cultivars in Poland (‘Šampion’, ‘Golden Delicious’, and ‘Ligol’). The hybrids evaluated were differentiated in terms of the tested features. It was found that the fruits of the ‘GL’ hybrid had the highest firmness—both after harvest and post storage; it was also one of the highest-rated overall impressions by consumers among the cultivars tested (only ‘Ligol’ apples had higher scores). The hybrid with low fruit quality and low health-promoting properties at this stage of the study was ‘TL’, whose overall impression was also rated lowest by consumers. The study also showed that the content of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of apples can be higher in green-skinned cultivars compared to red-skinned cultivars. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-742f1c2770a24007a3f7de97da4c1bba2024-01-29T13:38:43ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722023-12-01141110.3390/agriculture14010001Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in PolandEwa Szpadzik0Karolina Molska-Kawulok1Tomasz Krupa2Sebastian Przybyłko3Department of Pomology and Horticulture Economics, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW-WULS), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Pomology and Horticulture Economics, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW-WULS), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Pomology and Horticulture Economics, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW-WULS), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Pomology and Horticulture Economics, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW-WULS), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandApples are the most important species in Polish fruit production, and their fresh fruit and processing products occupy a very important place in the European and world food economies. A natural process on the apple market is the replacement of older cultivars with new ones. Consequently, breeding work is being carried out all over the world to obtain new, attractive apple cultivars. In this work, four new apple hybrids obtained in the Department of Pomology and Horticulture Economics at the University of Life Sciences in Warsaw (WULS—SGGW), i.e., two red-skinned hybrids (‘I’P’ and ‘TL’) and two green-skinned hybrids (‘GL’ and ‘LG’), were tested for their main physico-chemical characteristics after harvest and after storage, as well as for their consumer acceptability in a comparison with three popular cultivars in Poland (‘Šampion’, ‘Golden Delicious’, and ‘Ligol’). The hybrids evaluated were differentiated in terms of the tested features. It was found that the fruits of the ‘GL’ hybrid had the highest firmness—both after harvest and post storage; it was also one of the highest-rated overall impressions by consumers among the cultivars tested (only ‘Ligol’ apples had higher scores). The hybrid with low fruit quality and low health-promoting properties at this stage of the study was ‘TL’, whose overall impression was also rated lowest by consumers. The study also showed that the content of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of apples can be higher in green-skinned cultivars compared to red-skinned cultivars.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/1/1breedingapplefruit qualitystorageantioxidant capacitypolyphenols |
| spellingShingle | Ewa Szpadzik Karolina Molska-Kawulok Tomasz Krupa Sebastian Przybyłko Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland Agriculture breeding apple fruit quality storage antioxidant capacity polyphenols |
| title | Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland |
| title_full | Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland |
| title_fullStr | Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland |
| title_full_unstemmed | Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland |
| title_short | Physico-Chemical Analysis of the Fruits and Consumer Preferences of New Apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh) Hybrids Bred in Poland |
| title_sort | physico chemical analysis of the fruits and consumer preferences of new apple i malus i i domestica i borkh hybrids bred in poland |
| topic | breeding apple fruit quality storage antioxidant capacity polyphenols |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/1/1 |
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