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Table 4 Fructose and glucose contents of four mango cultivars at three stages of maturity in KARI-Thika site, mean ± SD (N)

From: Application of DRIFT-FTIR spectroscopy for quantitative prediction of simple sugars in two local and two Floridian mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivars in Kenya

Cultivar (no. of trees)

Sugars

Green maturity

Intermediate

Fully ripe

Apple (10)

Fructose

12.30 ± 1.13a(29)

12.53 ± 1.13a(25)

12.94 ± 1.15a (20)

Glucose

1.96 ± 1.34b(29)

2.66 ± 1.28a(25)

2.86 ± 1.30a (20)

Tommy Atkins (10)

Fructose

12.16 ± 1.20a(23)

12.62 ± 1.13a(24)

12.13 ± 1.16a (20)

Glucose

2.20 ± 1.34b(23)

2.45 ± 1.21ab(24)

2.93 ± 1.46a (20)

Ngowe (6)

Fructose

12.77 ± 1.16a(11)

13.42 ± 1.14a(7)

13.27 ± 1.11a (9)

Glucose

2.51 ± 1.15b(11)

2.90 ± 1.30ab(7)

3.29 ± 1.30a (9)

Kent (6)

Fructose

13.30 ± 1.13a(22)

13.68 ± 1.03a(8)

13.15 ± 1.13a (8)

Glucose

2.80 ± 1.34a(22)

3.12 ± 1.15a(8)

3.30 ± 1.32a (8)

  1. A factorial ANOVA followed by LSD and Tukey post hoc. Means with the same superscript letter in a row are not significantly different (p ≤ 0.05). Amounts are per 100 g of freeze dry weight. N number of pulp samples analyzed