Caracterização física e físico-química de frutos de Spondias dulcis Parkinsonde diferentes microrregiões do Estado da Paraíba

Abstract

The fruits of the caja-mangueira (Spondias dulcis Parkinson), Present high potential for the market of fresh fruits, and also desirable characteristics for the processed one, due to their sensorial and nutritional characteristics, being presented with good perspectives of cultivation and commercialization of in order to allow the development of the region. The objective of the present study was to characterize caja-mangueira fruits harvested at commercial maturity (totally yellow color) from the microregions of the Brejo Paraibano (BP), Joao Pessoa (JP) and North Coast (LN), State of Paraiba, Brazil. A completely randomized design with two treatments (Microregion) was used, with 15 fruits, each fruit one repetition for physical characterization and three replicates of 150 g of pulp for the physical-chemical characterization. The characterization of the fruits was carried out through 11 evaluations of: length (L), diameter (D), firmness (F), fruit weight (FW), yield of pulp (YP), percentage of bark (PB), percentage of core (PC), pH, total soluble solids (TSS), total titratable acidity (TTA) and SS/TTA (ratio). The physical and physicochemical characteristics of the fruit from the North Coast microregion indicate that these can be used both for the consumption of fresh fruits and for industrialization. The results of the analysis of variance showed the existence of significant simple linear correlations between the physical and chemical characteristics analyzed, indicating the existence of characters such as fruit size or soluble solids content to estimate production, selection and fruit quality parameters of the caja-mangueira.