Table 5.
Carotenoid contents (mg kg−1 DW) in eleven varieties of Chinese cabbage.
| No. | Trivial names | Commercial varieties |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chunkwang | CR Hakwang | Bulam No. 3 | Bulam Plus | K0015 | K0112 | ||
| 1 | Lutein | 153.17 ± 30.32d | 206.24 ± 3.92cd | 158.05 ± 19.72d | 193.41 ± 28.81cd | 161.69 ± 27.39d | 384.86 ± 16.07a |
| 2 | Zeaxanthin | 6.11 ± 0.47d | 8.24 ± 1.26bcd | 5.93 ± 1.15d | 7.60 ± 0.65d | 7.99 ± 0.46cd | 23.82 ± 2.88a |
| 3 | α-Carotene | 18.16 ± 6.57d | 28.55 ± 2.46cd | 18.67 ± 3.87d | 23.14 ± 5.25cd | 26.95 ± 6.69cd | 91.50 ± 14.88a |
| 4 | β-Carotene | 111.68 ± 40.81c | 163.05 ± 4.13c | 117.94 ± 22.64c | 143.35 ± 30.11c | 149.08 ± 40.11c | 501.23 ± 55.73a |
| Total | 289.12 ± 77.90d | 406.08 ± 8.74cd | 300.58 ± 46.14cd | 367.50 ± 64.66cd | 345.72 ± 74.45cd | 1001.41 ± 86.82a | |
| No. | Trivial names | Commercial varieties | |||||
| K0416 | K0461 | K0588 | K0648 | K0651 | Mean | ||
| 1 | Lutein | 282.24 ± 40.26bc | 167.48 ± 12.60d | 183.00 ± 21.45cd | 248.68 ± 48.12cd | 360.11 ± 76.64ab | 227.18 ± 82.26 |
| 2 | Zeaxanthin | 13.28 ± 1.88bc | 7.19 ± 1.59d | 8.55 ± 0.79bcd | 10.88 ± 3.81bcd | 13.43 ± 1.84b | 10.27 ± 5.18 |
| 3 | α-Carotene | 64.10 ± 19.86ab | 26.30 ± 2.76cd | 27.37 ± 2.39cd | 51.61 ± 20.15bc | 27.65 ± 7.56cd | 36.73 ± 22.95 |
| 4 | β-Carotene | 297.39 ± 77.80b | 144.21 ± 12.67c | 131.71 ± 16.50c | 228.27 ± 73.01bc | 140.42 ± 35.47c | 193.48 ± 115.58 |
| Total | 657.01 ± 136.87b | 345.18 ± 21.79cd | 350.63 ± 25.40cd | 539.43 ± 144.58bc | 541.61 ± 120.25bc | 467.66 ± 211.79 | |
Within each column, values followed by the same letters are not significantly different at p ⩽ 0.05, using Tukey’s multiple-range test (n = 3).