Caracterização física e físico-química de frutos de araticum (Annona crassiflora Mart.)

Abstract

This work objectified to characterize physics chemically and collected fruits of araticum of natural populations of plants located in five areas of Cerrado of the state of Goiás. The work was carried through in the “Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade Federal de Goiás”. The mature fruits had been evaluated individually, for area and plant. They had been determined: masses of the fruit, the pulp and the rind, diameter and height of the fruit, total number of seeds and defective seeds for fruit, mass of the seeds, colors of the fruit, the rind and the pulp, texture of the rind and total soluble solids. The physical characteristics had shown significant variation between fruits of plants of the different areas. The average mass of the fruit was of 872,06 g. The pulp, part of economic importance, represented about 47% of this mass, whose variation for region was of 44% 49%. The number of seeds was raised, on average 108, representing 15.8% of the mass of the fruit. It has trend for the brown color of the rind, as well as for the yellowish color or cream of the pulp. A variation of texture of the rind was observed, since smooth until rough. Of the total 219 of evaluated fruits, 15.5% had presented the orifice of exit of Bephratelloides pomorum. It inside had significant differences between areas and plants of areas for all the variable physicist. The mass average of the 872,06 fruits of araticum was of g with average income of pulp, rind and seeds of: 46.8%, 37.4% and 15.8%, respectively.