Evaluation of local mango for pickling characters.
Chaudhari S. M., Wagh U. S., Desai U. T., Idate G. M.
Author Affiliation: Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri - 413 722, India.
Journal of Maharashtra Agricultural Universities 31 : 386-387
Abstract : A detailed study of yield, physical fruit characters, and chemical composition of mangoes belonging to 20 genotypes was carried out. The acidity, sugar and starch contents were estimated as well as fibre content. The fruit number per tree varied from 40 to 955 with mean of 205. Variability was noticed for skin thickness (1.5-2.0 mm), skin percentage (11.3-21.0), stone weight (18-41 g), stone percentage (12.7-23.8), pulp percentage (60.0-74.6) and pulp to stone ratio (2.6-5.8). The characteristics of mangoes which are suitable for pickling, and mango genotypes which possessed these characteristics were as follows: high skin percentage (genotypes 16, 38, 65 and 67), >80% moisture content (16, 17 20, 24, 27, 32, 35, 38 and 57), high total soluble solids or TSS (17, 20, 32, 35 and 57), and medium (genotypes 32 and 45) to high (20 and 35) acidity. In general, the genotypes 16, 17, 20, 24, 27, 32, 35, 38 and 57 were promising. However, genotype 35 was found to be the most promising and can be ranked first among the 9 genotypes. It had dark green-coloured fruits with 70.5% pulp, 4.4% percent acidity, 101.7 mg/100 g vitamin C, 8.1% TSS and 0.22% fibre content.