Free sugars and sorbitol in fruits--a complication from the literature
Wrolstad, R.E.; Shallenberger, R.S.
Journal - Association of Official Analytical Chemists 64(1): 91-103
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-5756 PMID: 7204315 Document Number: 176634
The glucose, fructose, sucrose and sorbitol content of apple, pear, plum, cherry, grape, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and peach fruit was compiled from the literature; their range, mean, SD and percent coefficient of variance were calculated. The individual fruits have characteristic patterns relating to their sorbitol content, glucose:fructose ratio and sucrose content, which are influenced to only a small degree by variety, season or geographic origin. Processing in many cases has a marked effect on sucrose content.