Abstract
Abstract Fruits of several cucumber ( Cucumis sativus L.) cultivars were analyzed for sugar and dry matter content shortly after harvest and after a 3-day storage period (16°C). The storage period produced no consistent pattern of differences in reducing and total sugar and dry matter content Large fruits (3.81–5.08 cm diameter) had more sugar than small fruits (<2.70 cm diameter). Fructose, glucose and sucrose were shown to be present Storage had little quantitative effect on sugar concentration. Additional data from other seasons confirmed that nearly all of the sugar present was reducing sugar. Correlations between refractive index and reducing sugar were from .42 to .93 in one experiment and from .05 to .84 in another. The sugar concentration was higher in locule tissue than in the carpel wall tissue. The sugar concentration of the fruit was generally less than 3% and refractive index expressed as percent soluble solids does not appear to be an accurate indicator of sugar content.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
Three-day storage produced no consistent differences in reducing sugar, total sugar, or dry matter.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- storage periode0
- Outcome
- reducing and total sugar and dry matter contente0
- Direction
- no consistent pattern of differencese0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The storage period produced no consistent pattern of differences in reducing and total sugar and dry matter content”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Large cucumber fruits had more sugar than small fruits.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Organ / stage
- Large fruitse0
- Outcome
- sugare0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- small fruitse0
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Verbatim
e0“Large fruits (3.81–5.08 cm diameter) had more sugar than small fruits (<2.70 cm diameter).”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Fructose, glucose, and sucrose were present in cucumber fruit.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- Fructose, glucose and sucrosee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fructose, glucose and sucrose were shown to be present”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Storage had little quantitative effect on sugar concentration.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- Storagee0
- Outcome
- sugar concentratione0
- Direction
- little quantitative effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Storage had little quantitative effect on sugar concentration.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Nearly all cucumber fruit sugar was reducing sugar.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- reducing sugare0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“nearly all of the sugar present was reducing sugar”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Refractive index correlated with reducing sugar from .42 to .93 in one experiment.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- Correlations between refractive index and reducing sugare0
- Value
- .42 to .93e0
- Comparator
- refractive indexe0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Correlations between refractive index and reducing sugar were from .42 to .93 in one experiment”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Refractive index correlated with reducing sugar from .05 to .84 in another experiment.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- reducing sugare0
- Value
- .05 to .84e0
- Comparator
- refractive indexe0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Correlations between refractive index and reducing sugar were from .42 to .93 in one experiment and from .05 to .84 in another.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Sugar concentration was higher in locule tissue than carpel wall tissue.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Organ / stage
- locule tissuee0
- Outcome
- sugar concentratione0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- carpel wall tissuee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The sugar concentration was higher in locule tissue than in the carpel wall tissue.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit sugar concentration was generally below 3%.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- sugar concentratione0
- Direction
- less thane0
- Value
- 3%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The sugar concentration of the fruit was generally less than 3%”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Refractive index as percent soluble solids was judged an inaccurate indicator of sugar content.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- indicator of sugar contente0
- Comparator
- refractive index expressed as percent soluble solidse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“refractive index expressed as percent soluble solids does not appear to be an accurate indicator of sugar content.”
t0“cucumber”
The same questions in other papers
storage · quality: sugar starch · Cucumis sativus (cucumber)Positive and negative results
1 paper in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction
- positive
- positive
- no effect
Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.