. 2019 Sep 30;8(4):1777–1787. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.1191

Table 1.

Proximate composition, pH and TSS, and color parameters for coconut sap, sugar palm juice, and sugarcane juice

Attribute	Coconut sap	Sugar palm juice	Sugarcane juice
Moisture content (%)	85.93 ± 0.66^a	85.77 ± 1.17^a	84.15 ± 0.90^b
Ash content (%)	0.27 ± 0.03^a	0.25 ± 0.02^a	0.17 ± 0.02^b
Crude fat (%)	0.01 ± 0.00^b	0.03 ± 0.00^b	0.40 ± 0.07^a
Protein (%)	0.26 ± 0.02^b	0.27 ± 0.02^b	0.44 ± 0.03^a
Carbohydrate (%)	13.53 ± 0.64^b	14.68 ± 1.13^b	16.84 ± 0.85^a
pH	5.52 ± 0.08^a	4.92 ± 0.07^b	4.51 ± 0.08^c
TSS (%)	12.40 ± 1.14^b	13.00 ± 1.58^b	14.40 ± 1.82^a
Color
L*	38.16 ± 0.63^a	32.52 ± 0.75^b	31.10 ± 034^c
a*	−0.92 ± 0.10^b	−0.80 ± 0.08^b	0.68 ± 0.13^a
b*	−3.5 ± 0.04^b	−4.29 ± 0.17^c	4.97 ± 0.18^a
C*	3.62 ± 0.07^c	4.37 ± 0.16^b	5.02 ± 0.16^a
H*	1.31 ± 0.02^c	1.38 ± 0.02^b	1.43 ± 0.03^a
Browning index	−10.21 ± 0.29^b	−13.71 ± 0.56^c	18.65 ± 0.31^a

Values in the same row sharing different small letters (a, b, c) are expressed as significantly different (p ≤ 0.05) among the samples.