Some nutritional, pomological and physical properties of cornelian cherry ( Cornus mas L.)

Abstract

The nutritional, pomological and physical properties of some selected cornelian cherry fruits ( Cornus mas L.) from Konya (Kurucuova) were determined. The fruit characteristics ranged from 1.496 to 4.116 g for fruit weights, 9.108 to 11.967 for flesh/seed ratio, 13.6 to 24.1% for total acidity (as malic acid), 6.371 to 12.61 TSS/acid ratio 6.7 to 9.3% for total sugar and 6.924 to 8.433 for reducing sugar, the average length, width and geometric diameter ranged from 15.95 to 20.77 mm, 10.91 to 16.40 mm and 12.574 to 17.692 mm respectively; the fruit surface area, projected area and volume ranged from 498 to 989 mm 2, 147 to 320 mm 2 and 775 to 2415 mm 3 respectively; the sphericity ranged from 0.749 to 0.854; the 1000 fruit mass ranged from 1446 to 4116 g; fruit and bulk densites ranged from 8860 to 17,568 N/m 3 and 5479 to 6588 N/m 3, respectively; the hardness and elasticity modulus ranged from 1.22 to 2.44 N and 388 to 777 kPa respectively; the static and dynamic coefficients of friction ranged from 0.79 to 0.85 and 0.62 to 0.64 respectively for steel 0.89 and 0.91, 0.67 to 0.68 respectively for plywood and 0.93 to 0.96 and 0.75 to 0.76 respectively for rubber.