Predominance of Fructose Accumulation in Cold‐Stored Immature Potato Tubers
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Food Science
- Vol. 27 (1) , 1-4
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1962.tb00047.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: Freshly harvested immature potato tubers contain appreciable amounts of free sugar, mainly as sucrose. As the tuber matures, the percentage of sucrose present decreases and that of starch increases. When stored at 25°C, immature tubers lose sucrose but starch does not accumulate. At 0°C storage, starch content decreases, immature tubers losing starch faster than mature tubers. Free sugars accumulate at O°C, the major one being fructose in immature tubers, whereas sucrose accumulation predominates in the mature tubers.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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