• COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VITAMIN C. CONTENT (ASCORBIC ACID) IN PINEAPPLE AND BANANA


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]In this study, the ascorbic acid levels in pineapple and banana were determined by titrimetric and spectrophotometric methods using oxalic acid and orthophosphoric acid as extracting solvents. The yield of ascorbic acid by titrimetric method ranged from 0.20 ± 0.02 mg/100g to 13.20 ± 0.05 mg/100g while spectrophotometric method ranged from 7.76 ± 4.7 mg/100g to 87.1 ± 6.3 mg/100g. Regardless of the extracting solvents and the estimation methods, the results revealed that ascorbic acid content was very high in pineapple while it was very low in banana. Comparison of the two estimati ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]1.0 INTRODUCTIONA fruit is the dibble part of a plant that develops from flower. Many of the fruits grown in the fruits has grown in the wild for thousands of years. When people began to eat them as food they simply gathered the wild fruits and vegetables then about 11,000 years ago people began to plant fruit and vegetables to form the plants and to care for them. The formers experimented and grew new kinds of the wild fruits and vegetables (Huitray, 2000).Fruits and vegetables found growing in one part of the world were taken by explorers and the fruits and vegetables were then planted and g ... Continue Reading