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Food Chemistry 2018 Journal of Food, Nutrition and Population Health
ISSN: 2577-0586 Page 78
July 23-24, 2018
Rome, Italy
3rd Edition of International Conference on
Agriculture &
Food Chemistry
The province of Almeria, southeast of Spain, has more than
30,000 hectares of greenhouse dedicated to the cultivation
of vegetables and one third of them are pepper crops. There are
different types of pepper, being the Italian and conical elongated
peppers, 9% of recent interest in the market is for its high taste
quality and different ripening colors. A segment of the market is
interested in this same type as traditional non-hybrid cultivars
called “cuerno de toro”. The objective of the present study was
to characterize the physicochemical and nutritional profile in
three cultivars of Italian pepper, three conical cultivars with three
colors, red, orange and yellow and one traditional red elongated
pepper cultivar. These analyses were performed from three
randomly selected fruits for each of the three replications per
cultivar. Plants were grown in a Mediterranean greenhouse of the
IFAPA “La Mojonera” Research Center, Almeria using integrative
production management techniques. Methodologies used are
supported in the scientific literature and the results were analyzed
statistically. Cultivars showed a wide variability for most of the
characters studied. The yellow fruits had the highest average
weight of 109.61–122.21 g. In relation to the color, different
chroma is obtained, the yellow cultivars showed the highest tone
value of hue >58. The pH ranged between 5.08–5.54 and the
acidity is 0.18–0.26 g of citric acid/100 g of fresh weight. With
significant differences between types and cultivars, all cultivars
showed high sweetness standing out significantly with 8.81 ºBrix,
the red conical type. Total phenolic content was similar between
10.26–12.97 mg eq. gallic acid/g f.w. The orange and conical red
and orange Italian fruits showed significantly higher vitamin C
content of 84.7–101.17mg/100 g. The traditional cultivar showed
the highest carotenoid content with 4.32 mg/g f.w.
Biography
María del Carmen García García is an Agricultural Technical Engineer from
the University of Barcelona, Graduate in Agricultural Engineering and Mas-
ter in Protected Horticulture from the University of Almería. Current lines of
work are organic agriculture and diversification of horticultural crops in the
Mediterranean greenhouse.
Quality characterization of traditional, Italian and conical
pepper cultivars
María del Carmen García García1, Felipe Hermoso Almudena1, Pascual Asso Fer-
nando1 and Del Río Celestino Mercedes2
1IFAPA La Mojonera, Spain
2Córdoba Agroalimentary Laboratory, Spain
María del Carmen García García et al., J Food Nutr Popul Health 2018, Volume 2
DOI: 10.21767/2577-0586-C2-006