Table 3.
Normal phase HPLC analysis of procyanidins in each component of the fruit and in the jelly of Colombian bilberry (V. meridionale S.).
| Degree of polymerization | Fruit fraction |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh bilberry | Pomace | Pulp | Jam | |
| DP1 | 11.9 ± 1.6a | 20.8 ± 2.8b | 6.2 ± 1.5a | ND |
| DP2 | 5.2 ± 0.5a | 3.6 ± 1.3b | 2.9 ± 0.3a | ND |
| DP3 | 10.9 ± 2.0a | 23.7 ± 2.2b | 7.8 ± 0.8a | ND |
| DP4 | 7.2 ± 0.7a | 15.2 ± 1.4b | 5.8 ± 0.7a | ND |
| DP5 | 5.1 ± 0.7a | 12.0 ± 1.2b | 4.6 ± 0.6a | ND |
| DP6 | 5.6 ± 0.9a | 13.0 ± 1.1b | 4.8 ± 0.5a | ND |
| DP7 | 3.0 ± 0.4a | 8.5 ± 0.8b | 2.9 ± 0.9a | ND |
| DP8 | 3.3 ± 0.5a | 8.5 ± 0.9b | 2.9 ± 0.4a | ND |
| DP9 | 5.6 ± 0.9a | 17.6 ± 1.3b | 5.3 ± 0.7a | ND |
| DP10 | 2.2 ± 0.7a | 8.5 ± 0.8b | 3.1 ± 0.4a | ND |
| Total | 59.9 ± 8.8a | 140.9 ± 11.8b | 46.8 ± 6.0a | ND |
Values represent means ± standard error (n = 4).
Values in rows with different letters are significantly different at p 0.05.
ND = nondetectable.