Abstract
Pomegranate use is increasing worldwide, as it is considered a tasteful healthy food. It is mainly used as fruit, juice, and jam. The pomegranate peel represents about 40-50% of the total fruit weight and contains numerous and diverse bioactive substances. The aim of this research was to analyze the pomegranate peel chemical composition of Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy and treated with an innovative physic dry concentration procedure in comparison with the peel composition of freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy, freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in South Africa, and freeze-dried pomegranate cultivated in India. The specific aim was to verify how much the growth area, cultivar type, and dry procedure influenced the chemical composition of the peels in terms of valuable bioactive compounds. Spectrophotometric and HPLC identification methods were used to detect antioxidants, antioxidant activities, and phenolic and flavonoid components. Results evidenced that in pomegranate peels of Wonderful cultivated in Calabria and dried with the innovative process, total phenolic substances, total flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, and antioxidant activities were the highest. Great amounts of single phenolic acids and flavonoids were found in Calabrian Wonderful peels dried with the innovative process. Overall, it emerged that a great amount of bioactive and diverse compounds found in Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel comes from the niche pedoclimatic conditions, and the physic drying innovative methodology turned out to be an advantageous procedure to concentrate and conserve biocompounds.
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Claim · model-written summary
Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel dried with the innovative process had the highest total phenolic substances, total flavonoids and vitamin C.
- Taxon
- Pomegranate
Punica granatumt0 - Material
- Wonderfule1
- Treatment
- dried with the innovative processe1
- Outcome
- total phenolic substances, total flavonoids, vitamin Ce1
- Direction
- were the higheste1
- Comparator
- freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italye0
- Setting
- Calabriae1
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Verbatim
t0“Pomegranate Wastes”
e0“The aim of this research was to analyze the pomegranate peel chemical composition of Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy and treated with an innovative physic dry concentration procedure in comparison with the peel composition of freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy, freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in South Africa, and freeze-dried pomegranate cultivated in India.”
e1“Results evidenced that in pomegranate peels of Wonderful cultivated in Calabria and dried with the innovative process, total phenolic substances, total flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, and antioxidant activities were the highest.”
Claim · model-written summary
Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel dried with the innovative process had the highest vitamin E and antioxidant activities.
- Taxon
- PomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Material
- Wonderfule1
- Treatment
- dried with the innovative processe1
- Outcome
- vitamin E, and antioxidant activitiese1
- Direction
- were the higheste1
- Comparator
- freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italye0
- Setting
- Calabriae1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pomegranate Wastes”
e0“The aim of this research was to analyze the pomegranate peel chemical composition of Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy and treated with an innovative physic dry concentration procedure in comparison with the peel composition of freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy, freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in South Africa, and freeze-dried pomegranate cultivated in India.”
e1“Results evidenced that in pomegranate peels of Wonderful cultivated in Calabria and dried with the innovative process, total phenolic substances, total flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, and antioxidant activities were the highest.”
Claim · model-written summary
Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel dried with the innovative process contained great amounts of single phenolic acids and flavonoids.
- Taxon
- PomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Material
- Wonderfule2
- Treatment
- dried with the innovative processe2
- Outcome
- single phenolic acids and flavonoidse2
- Direction
- Great amountse2
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Pomegranate Wastes”
e2“Great amounts of single phenolic acids and flavonoids were found in Calabrian Wonderful peels dried with the innovative process.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors propose that the bioactive and diverse compounds of Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel come from the niche pedoclimatic conditions.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume3
- Outcome
- bioactive and diverse compoundse3
- Qualifier
- niche pedoclimatic conditionse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pomegranate Wastes”
e3“Overall, it emerged that a great amount of bioactive and diverse compounds found in Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel comes from the niche pedoclimatic conditions, and the physic drying innovative methodology turned out to be an advantageous procedure to concentrate and conserve biocompounds.”
Claim · model-written summary
The innovative physic drying method was an advantageous procedure to concentrate and conserve bioactive compounds in pomegranate peel.
- Taxon
- PomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- physic drying innovative methodologye3
- Outcome
- concentrate and conserve biocompoundse3
- Comparator
- freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pomegranate Wastes”
e0“The aim of this research was to analyze the pomegranate peel chemical composition of Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy and treated with an innovative physic dry concentration procedure in comparison with the peel composition of freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in Southern Italy, freeze-dried Wonderful cultivated in South Africa, and freeze-dried pomegranate cultivated in India.”
e3“Overall, it emerged that a great amount of bioactive and diverse compounds found in Calabrian Wonderful pomegranate peel comes from the niche pedoclimatic conditions, and the physic drying innovative methodology turned out to be an advantageous procedure to concentrate and conserve biocompounds.”
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