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. 2018 Nov 20;9:1689. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01689

Table 1.

Main sugars and organic acid found in both climacteric and non-climacteric ripe fruits.

Fruits Main sugar Main organic acid Reference
Climacteric
Apple Fructose Malate Wu et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2010
Apricot Glucose/Fructose Malate/Citrate Gurrieri et al., 2001; Fan et al., 2017
Atemoya Fructose/Glucose Fumarate/Malate Alique and Oliveira, 1994; Anaya-Esparza et al., 2017
Banana Fructose Malate Morvai and Molnár-Perl, 1992
Blueberry Glucose/Fructose Citrate Ayaz et al., 2001; Perini et al., 2018
Guava Fructose Citrate Bashir and Abu-Goukh, 2003
Mango Fructose Citrate/Malate Medlicott and Thompson, 1985; Cosme Silva et al., 2017
Papaya Glucose Citrate Selvaraj et al., 1982; Souza et al., 2014
Peach Glucose/Fructose Malate/Citrate Morvai and Molnár-Perl, 1992; Cirilli et al., 2016
Pear Fructose/Sorbitol Malate/Citrate Zhen et al., 2016
Non-climacteric
Blackberry Fructose Isocitrate Fan-Chiang and Wrolstad, 2010
Grape Glucose Malate Martínez-Esteso et al., 2011
Lemon Fructose Citrate Asencio et al., 2018
Lima Fructose Citrate Albertini et al., 2006; Asencio et al., 2018
Lychee Sucrose/Glucose Tartaric/Malate Harvey et al., 1975
Longan Sucrose/Fructose Malate/Oxalate Yang et al., 2009
Orange Fructose Citrate Albertini et al., 2006
Pineapple Sucrose/Fructose Citrate Luengwilai et al., 2018
Ponkan Sucrose/Fructose Citrate/Quinate Albertini et al., 2006; Lin et al., 2015
Strawberry Fructose/Glucose Citrate Lee et al., 2018