Table 1.

Peanut skin color ¹ of gamma-irradiated and stored peanuts.

Color	Peanuts	T2	0.0 kGy	5.2 kGy	7.2 kGy	10.0 kGy
L *	In-shell	0	44.72 ± 1.56 Aab 3,4	43.60 ± 2.82 Ab	41.89 ± 0.58 Ab	48.03 ± 0.40 Aa
		3	41.97 ± 1.44 A	43.75 ± 1.33 A	40.02 ± 2.53 AB	41.85 ± 2.36 B
		6	43.57 ± 1.54 A	42.03 ± 2.98 A	40.36 ± 0.28 AB	40.98 ± 0.42 BC
		9	41.79 ± 1.01 Aa	40.80 ± 0.62 Aab	37.21 ± 1.93 Bc	37.64 ± 1.26 Cbc
		12	26.72 ± 0.23 Ba	24.27 ± 1.04 Bb	26.06 ± 0.54 Cab	25.44 ± 1.19 Dab
	Blanched	0	60.21 ± 3.23 AB	58.21 ± 1.26 A	62.20 ± 0.19 A	58.02 ± 0.72 C
		3	59.14 ±0.46 ABb	60.07 ± 2.40 Ab	53.68 ± 1.07 Bc	64.69 ± 0.52 ABa
		6	57.48 ± 0.67 Bb	58.22 ± 1.40 Ab	60.27 ± 3.57 Ab	66.20 ± 0.65 Aa
		9	62.40 ± 0.24 A	61.17 ± 2.64 A	61.82 ± 0.85 A	62.47 ± 0.49 B
		12	48.61 ± 0.56 C	52.40 ± 1.54 B	48.48 ± 1.50 C	49.25 ± 2.17 D
Chroma	In-shell	0	25.20 ± 1.35 B	25.12 ± 1.25 BC	26.80 ± 2.84 AB	28.60 ± 1.40 A
		3	27.88 ± 1.55 AB	30.44 ± 1.89 A	27.27 ± 0.32 AB	28.04 ± 2.11 AB
		6	29.51 ± 1.89 AB	28.67 ± 2.16 AB	29.99 ± 1.34 A	31.29 ± 1.97 A
		9	30.02 ± 1.65 A	28.33 ± 2.28 AB	27.67 ± 3.53 AB	29.87 ± 1.67 A
		12	25.32 ± 1.90 B	22.40 ± 1.18 C	23.76 ± 1.47 B	23.03 ± 1.13 B
	Blanched	0	20.38 ± 1.29 A	19.91 ± 2.11	20.90 ± 0.94 A	19.74 ± 0.26 DC
		3	21.30 ± 0.43 Aab	20.97 ± 1.43 b	20.23 ± 0.16 Ab	22.98 ± 0.25 ABa
		6	19.41 ± 0.51 ABb	20.11 ± 1.48 b	21.17 ± 0.98 Aab	24.09 ± 2.04 Aa
		9	20.92 ± 0.55 A	21.13 ± 0.76	20.72 ± 0.42 A	20.91 ± 1.25 BC
		12	15.57 ± 3.20 B	21.01 ± 5.51	17.09 ± 0.78 B	16.77 ± 1.23 D
°Hue	In-shell	0	53.05 ± 2.13	55.67 ± 4.48	52.74 ± 2.63	57.22 ± 2.55
		3	56.21 ± 2.42 ab	51.82 ± 1.58 b	56.48 ± 0.94 ab	56.96 ± 1.89 a
		6	56.51 ± 2.81	57.19 ± 1.71	55.51 ± 0.64	56.37 ± 3.87
		9	55.32 ± 0.66	57.17 ± 1.09	53.58 ± 2.93	57.32 ± 1.88
		12	57.79 ± 1.34 a	56.02 ± 0.74 ab	54.03 ± 0.98 b	53.82 ± 0.22 b
	Blanched	0	86.46 ± 1.23 ab	85.46 ± 0.79 b	88.22 ± 0.50 a	86.23 ± 0.81 Aab
		3	84.67 ± 0.66	86.58 ± 1.04	85.14 ± 3.29	85.52 ± 0.50 AB
		6	85.97 ± 0.94	85.76 ± 0.76	85.14 ± 0.82	86.29 ± 0.53 A
		9	85.54 ± 0.25	85.69 ± 0.79	85.01 ± 1.05	85.93 ± 0.44 A
		12	86.76 ± 0.80 a	85.09 ± 1.15 ab	84.28 ± 0.58 b	84.28 ± 0.58 Bb

¹Data represent the means of triplicate analysis for each sample ± standard deviations;

²T is storage time in months;

³means with the same capital letters within a column are not significantly different according to Tukey’s multiple test (p < 0.05);

⁴means with the same small letter within a row are not significantly different according to Tukey’s multiple test (p < 0.05).