. 2024 Dec 23;11:1495655. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1495655

Table 1.

Conventional quality indicators of blueberry fruit.

Samples	Control	MT (0.05 mM)	MT (0.5 mM)	EBL (0.1 μM)	EBL (1.0 μM)	MeJA (0.5 mM)	MeJA (5.0 mM)
Fruit weight (g)	1.37 ± 0.09	1.37 ± 0.22	1.30 ± 0.17	1.32 ± 0.11	1.30 ± 0.19	1.37 ± 0.18	1.35 ± 0.18
Transverse diameter (mm)	13.32 ± 0.77^ab	12.81 ± 0.44^b	12.99 ± 0.72^b	13.39 ± 0.91^ab	13.32 ± 0.75^ab	13.91 ± 0.72^a	13.24 ± 0.83^ab
Longitudinal diameter (mm)	12.99 ± 0.83^ab	12.27 ± 0.57^b	12.62 ± 0.57^b	12.83 ± 0.92^ab	12.60 ± 0.70^b	13.50 ± 0.73^a	12.93 ± 0.81^ab
Firmness (N)	1.61 ± 0.27	1.56 ± 0.24	1.58 ± 0.17	1.51 ± 0.15	1.57 ± 0.12	1.60 ± 0.13	1.56 ± 0.28
L^*	34.20 ± 2.52	34.09 ± 2.82	33.53 ± 3.22	30.20 ± 1.49	32.09 ± 2.14	31.70 ± 2.31	33.31 ± 1.90
a^*	−0.23 ± 0.47^bc	0.06 ± 1.01^bc	−0.17 ± 0.51^bc	0.63 ± 0.59^a	0.10 ± 0.54^b	−0.23 ± 0.36^bc	−0.33 ± 0.27^c
b^*	−5.02 ± 1.41^c	−5.45 ± 1.41^c	−5.35 ± 1.97^c	−2.87 ± 0.98^a	−4.03 ± 1.16^b	−4.11 ± 1.17^b	−5.47 ± 1.38^c
TA (mg/g FW)	7.65 ± 0.88	7.17 ± 0.31	7.61 ± 1.16	7.35 ± 1.84	6.46 ± 1.24	8.27 ± 1.31	6.79 ± 0.54
TSS (^°Brix)	11.93 ± 0.52^bc	11.63 ± 0.68^c	12.13 ± 0.65^bc	11.80 ± 0.65^c	12.07 ± 0.65^bc	14.07 ± 0.38^a	13.20 ± 0.14^ab

All values were means ± sd, n = 10 (fruit weight, transverse diameter, longitudinal diameter, firmness, color L^*, a^*, b^*); n = 3 (titratable acidity, TA; total soluble solids content, TSS). Color L^∗ represents the brightness (0 means black, 100 means white); a^∗ represents the redness and greenness (a^∗ > 0 means the degree of red; a^∗ < 0 means the degree of green); b^∗ represents yellowness and blueness (b^∗ > 0 means the degree of yellow, b^∗ < 0 means the degree of blue). Values with different letters are significantly different in the same row (p < 0.05).