Volume 52 Number 4 Article 41
Year 1998 Month 10
Title: Sensory Characteristics of Four Strains of ´Fuji` Apples
Authors: M.A. cliff, M.C. King and R.A. MacDonald
Abstract:
Four strains of 'Fuji' apples were profiled over two growing seasons for their visual and flavour/texture characteristics using descriptive analysis techniques.
Trees had similar yield (number and weight
of fruit) and were grown in a randomized plot at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland,
British Columbia.
Twelve judges evaluated five visual attributes (ground color, percent red, red-color
saturation, stripe density and lenticels), and six flavor/texture attributes (crispness, firmness, juiciness,
fruitiness, sweetness and sourness). In both years (1994, 1995), 'Fuji' strains differed in all visual at
tributes and crispness and sourness.
There were instrumental color differences (L, a, and b measurements), but no pH, soluble solids, titratable acidity (TA) and pressure differences.
In general, apples
harvested in 1995 were less mature than those from 1994. This was reflected by higher TA and pressure values and lower sweetness, fruitiness and juiciness scores.
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