Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Sumitra Poyam, GP Nag, Bhagwat Kumar, DP Singh and Soumya Dewangan

Abstract:
A laboratory experiment was conducted at College of Horticulture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, IGKV, Chhattisgarh during the year 2021 to study the physico-chemical properties of custard apple ten genotypes collected from Bastar Plateau. The experiment was designed in Completely Randomized Design with three replications. The fruit has a short shelf life, there is a growing demand for custard apple to be preserved and processed into suitable value-added products. The physico-chemical properties of fruit are very important in the development of quality value added products, which also imparting good nutritional value of value added products. The physical properties of custard apple genotypes observed i.e. fruit weight, fruit length, fruit breadth, fruit thickness, seeded pulp weight, de-seeded pulp weight, peel weight, seed weight, fruit to pulp ratio and pulp to seed ratio. The significantly highest fruit weight and peel weight was recorded in IGCUST-LKHR-21, highest fruit length and seed weight observed in IGCUST-CHRM-21, highest fruit breadth, thickness, seeded and de-seeded pulp weight in IGCUST-KNK-21. The chemical properties i.e. pH, TSS and ascorbic acid was found significantly highest in IGCUST-KNK-21, highest total sugar, reducing sugar and phenol content observed in IGCUST-LKHR-21. Non-reducing sugar was found significantly highest in IGCUST-BDJ-21 and significantly highest acidity in IGCUST-LMGD-21 was observed