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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Valorization of a Local Italian Pear (

Alessandro Frontini, Carmine Negro, Rita Accogli, Francesco Minonne, Andrea Luvisi, Luigi De Bellis

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors.

Alessandro FrontiniDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4219-9807
Carmine NegroDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6981-2216
Rita AccogliDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7432-9971
Francesco MinonneComitato Esecutivo Parco "Costa Otrranto-Leuca e Bosco di Tricase", 73039 Tricase, Italy.
Andrea LuvisiDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2207-7493
Luigi De BellisDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6047-3526

Funding

Regione Puglia, PSR 2014-2020, project REGEFRUP 2.2 CUP: B17H22003240009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent decades, the food production chain has undergone transformations that have profoundly affected the way food is supplied, causing changes in the quality of the final products. Moreover, biodiversity is seriously threatened worldwide, and the valorization of local germplasm is a priority goal for most sectorial policies in Europe and elsewhere. Southern Italy and the Mediterranean basin present a vast heritage of fruit tree cultivars that is gradually being lost. Through this work, we aim to valorize a well-adapted local pear cultivar named Petrucina from the Salento area (southeastern Italy, Apulia region), which has never been studied before in detail. With this aim, the nutritional and nutraceutical features of pear flesh were characterized and compared with a reference pear cultivar that is widespread and well-known in Europe (cv. 'Conference'). Petrucina fruits have shown a peculiar aromatic compound profile, and a content of up to 398.3, 30.9, and 4.7 mg/100 g FW of malic acid, citric acid, and ascorbic acid, respectively, much higher than that of Conference fruits. Additionally, Petrucina flesh presents a more than triple total phenolic content and an antioxidant activity more than double that of Conference, making Petrucina a true functional food that deserves wide appreciation.

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antioxidantsbiodiversityfruit qualityfunctional foodlocal germplasmVOCs

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PMCPMC11120312

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