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. 2018 May 3;55(7):2679–2691. doi: 10.1007/s13197-018-3190-2

Table 2.

Proximate composition of different species of passion fruit (g/100 g of dry weight—except for moisture) with mean and standard deviation

	Yellow	Purple	Orange
Moisture
Pulp	90.06 ± 0.00^a	83.44 ± 0.99^b	88.18 ± 0.87^a
Peel	87.14 ± 3.29^b	87.02 ± 1.22^b	94.25 ± 0.26^a
Seed	57.09 ± 2.36^a	45.91 ± 0.97^b	58.46 ± 0.38^a
Proteins
Pulp	8.57 ± 0.10^b	6.53 ± 0.23^c	9.90 ± 0.35^a
Peel	3.40 ± 0.06^c	6.47 ± 0.04^b	11.60 ± 0.44^a
Seed	13.07 ± 0.12^b	13.23 ± 0.48^b	15.84 ± 0.15^a
Lipids
Pulp	1.11 ± 0.04^b	1.09 ± 0.04^b	2.92 ± 0.09^a
Peel	4.20 ± 0.03^c	4.89 ± 0.07^b	10.25 ± 0.12^a
Seed	12.31 ± 0.78^c	14.94 ± 0.41^b	19.64 ± 0.30^a
Ash
Pulp	6.94 ± 0.01^a	2.95 ± 0.14^b	7.31 ± 0.22^a
Peel	6.62 ± 0.24^c	7.93 ± 0. 05^b	13.29 ± 0.41^a
Seed	3.56 ± 0.05^a	1.85 ± 0.06^c	3.23 ± 0.18^b
Carbohydrates
Pulp	83.37 ± 0.00^b	89.42 ± 0.00^a	79.87 ± 0.00^c
Peel	85.78 ± 0.00^a	80.71 ± 0.00^b	64.86 ± 0.00^c
Seed	71.07 ± 0.00^a	69.98 ± 0.00^a	61.38 ± 0.00^b
Total fibre
Pulp	7.15 ± 0.07^a	1.40 ± 0.18^c	2.17 ± 0.11^b
Peel	61.16 ± 1.02^a	61.68 ± 1.31^a	62.14 ± 2.62^a
Seed	65.60 ± 0.52^a	55.06 ± 0.35^b	51.47 ± 0.60^c

^a,b,c Different superscript letters in the same row indicate statistically significant difference (p < 0.05)