Características físico-químicas de acerola do banco ativo de germoplasma em Pernambuco

Physicochemical characteristics of mature acerola fruits from 12 genotypes cultivated at Active Germoplasm Bank of Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), harvested at winter/1999, summer/2000 and summer/2001, were analyzed. The joint analysis of these fruits showed the following average variation: ascorbic acid 1067 to 1846mg/100g of fruit pulp; total anthocyanins 3.8 to 47.4mg/100g of fruit pulp; total flavonols 7.0 to 18.5 quercetin mg/100g of fruit pulp; titratable acidity (TA) 1.04 to 1.87g of malic acid/100g of fruit pulp; total soluble solids (TSS) 7.0 to 8.4oBrix; TSS/TA ratio 4.4 to 6.9 and pH 3.11 to 3.41. Considering the characteristics analyzed, all genotypes, except 015-CPA, which showed ascorbic acid level lower than the transformation industry standard, are potentially promising.