Vol. 6, Issue 5 (2018)
A study on physical properties of pomegranate (Punica granatum L., Punicaceae) fruits
Author(s): MB Patel, Alok Nath and Dr. JM Mayani
Abstract: Fresh pomegranate fruits (cv. Bhagva) were procured from the Horticultural farm, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar. The physical properties such as weight, volume, true density, bulk density, moisture content, sphericity of pomegranate fruits were measured. These data are required in research and development of various equipment. The physical properties of pomegranate fruit such as length, width, thickness, size and sphericity ranged from 69.70 to 90.86, 65.11 to 82.87, 63.02 to 83.17, 66.82 to 83.74 and 83.56 to 97.26 %. The weight, volume, true density and bulk density of pomegranate fruits ranged from 149.502 to 252.530 g, 150.156 to 254.450 cc, 0.916 to 1.058 and 0.621 to 0.693g/cc, whereas, the average values are 193.515±30.977 g, 192.890±30.054cc, 1.003±0.038 and 0.654±0.028 g/cc respectively. The true density of pomegranate aril was found to be 1046.030 kg/m3. The aril and peel moisture content of fresh pomegranate fruit ranged from 79.75 to 82.90 % and 69.90 to 72.56 %, whereas, the average values of moisture content of aril and peel were 81.38±0.1.16 and71.47±0.83 respectively. Peel thickness ranged from 4.61 to 7.59 mm whereas its mean value was 5.85 mm ±0.87 on opposite sides of peel pieces of selected fruits. The aril, juice and peel content of pomegranate fruits on whole fruit weight basis ranged from 51.51 to 55.66 %, 44.69 to 48.51 % and 37.25 to 40.21 %, whereas, the average values of aril, juice and peel contents are 53.87±1.24, 46.06±1.19 and 38.92±0.97 %, respectively.
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MB Patel, Alok Nath, Dr. JM Mayani. A study on physical properties of pomegranate (Punica granatum L., Punicaceae) fruits. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(5):1460-1463.
