Table 2.

Sugar and Vitamin C contents (mg/100g) in the different parts of indigenous and hybrid varieties of pumpkin.

Factors		Indigenous variety	Hybrid variety
Total Sugar	Peel	7.633 ± 0.52	10.761 ± 0.72*
	Flesh	10.494 ± 0.57	9.388 ± 0.75
	Seed	9.733 ± 0.54	8.057 ± 0.61
Reducing sugar	Peel	6.663 ± 0.47	8.588 ± 0.46*
	Flesh	3.793 ± 0.54	6.175 ± 0.69*
	Seed	22.595 ± 0.41	36.541 ± 0.42***
Vitamin C	Peel	10.000 ± 0.58***	2.500 ± 0.58
	Flesh	12.500 ± 0.58	39.500 ± 0.58***
	Seed	15.000 ± 0.58**	10.750 ± 0.29

Values are expressed as mean ± SE (n = 3). *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001 are considered as significant.