Sugarcane is a crop valued mainly for the high sucrose content in its cane stalks. Since sucrose is the most essential part of commercial cane sugar (CCS), it automatically becomes the top priority for farmers, and consequently, for breeders and agronomists as well. In the mature internodes, sucrose content can reach around 25% of the fresh weight of the culm. However, the rapid inversion and d...

Carrot (Daucus carota), one of the most economically important root vegetables, shows a wide range morphological and biochemical diversity. However, there is lack simultaneous systematic study regarding composition characteristics in carrot genetic resources, which crucial for crop improvement. For this reason, characteristics, carotenoids, free sugar content 180 resources grown open field cond...

In a previous investigation Jackson and Mc Donald studied Ofner's method for the determination of invert sugar in sucrose. They modified the procedure and were thus able to increase the reproducibility of results when determining from 5 to 25 mg of invert sugar in the presence of sucrose. This method has now been applied to pure invert sugar and to sugar samples containing 5 mg or less of inver...

Three kinds of taro paste were prepared with taro:water:sugar ratios of 1:0.33:1.4, 1:0.33:0.8 and 1:0.33:0.2. Results indicated that the paste with the highest sucrose concentration had the least hard texture. The retarding effect of sugar on hardness development and water mobility of the low concentration system was fructose > glucose > lactose > sucrose. The DSC characteristics showed that a...

The aim of the study was to assess whether an extra fertilization with manganese, commercial fertilizer Alkalin (N, K and Si), and combined treatment (manganese + Alkalin) affect the chemical composition of chokeberry fruits (Aronia melanocarpa (Michx) Elliot), especially sugar content and the quantity and profile of phenolics. Dry weight, soluble solids, titratable acidity, total sugar, reduci...

OBJECTIVE Sugar consumption has increased dramatically over the last decades in Western societies. Especially the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages seems to be a major risk for the development of obesity. Thus, we compared liquid versus solid high-sugar diets with regard to dietary intake, intestinal uptake and metabolic parameters in mice and partly in humans. METHODS Five iso-caloric diet...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to evaluate the physicochemical and antioxidant properties of Malaysian monofloral honey samples-acacia, pineapple and borneo honey-and compare them with tualang honey. Acacia and pineapple honey are produced by Apis mellifera bees while borneo and tualang honey are produced by Apis cerana and Apis dorsata bees, respectively. METHODS The physical pa...

Technical men outside of the sugar industry are apt to view the manufacture of sucrose from sugar beets as a most interesting and somewhat complex process. Those of us who are not sugar technologists are frequently astonished at the amount of knowledge that has been developed in that industry, at the smoothness of its operation, at the degree of operational standardizing which has taken place b...

This study aimed to analyze the quality of Apis mellifera -produced honey generated from 6 mo old Acacia crassicarpa nectar at 28 d harvest period. The tests referred procedures required by Indonesia National Standard (SNI) 8664-2018. variables tested were odor and taste diastase enzyme activity as well hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), water, reducing sugar (glucose), sucrose, acid, water insoluble...