Table 3.
Interactions means ± SE for the effects of flour type and farming system on total antioxidant activity (FRAP) in flour collected from UK and DE in 2015 and 2016 (results are expressed on a flour dry weight basis).
| Parameters assessed | Factor 1 | Factor 2 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Farming system | Flour type |
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| White | Whole-grain | ||
| Antioxidant activity FRAP (µmol FeSO4 7H2O g−1 flour) | Organic | 2.0 ± 0.2 B a | 8.7 ± 0.3 A a |
| Conventional | 2.0 ± 0.2 B a | 7.8 ± 0.3 A b | |
| Phosphorus mg g−1 | Organic | 0.95 ± 0.06 B a | 2.37 ± 0.12 A a |
| Conventional | 0.83 ± 0.07 B a | 1.85 ± 0.14 A b | |
| Potassium mg g−1 | Organic | 1.0 ± 0.1 B a | 2.3 ± 0.1 A a |
| Conventional | 0.9 ± 0.1 B a | 2.0 ± 0.1 A b | |
| Magnesium mg g−1 | Organic | 0.24 ± 0.02 B a | 0.76 ± 0.04 A a |
| Conventional | 0.21 ± 0.02 B a | 0.58 ± 0.04 A b | |
| Manganese mg kg−1 | Organic | 7 ± 0.6 B a | 22 ± 1.3 A a |
| Conventional | 6 ± 0.6 B a | 16 ± 1.2 A b | |
| Zinc mg kg−1 | Organic | 9 ± 0.7 B a | 22 ± 1.0 A a |
| Conventional | 8 ± 0.6 B a | 15 ± 1.1 A b | |
| Copper mg kg−1 | Organic | 4.1 ± 0.3 B a | 6.3 ± 0.4 A a |
| Conventional | 3.3 ± 0.3 B a | 4.4 ± 0.3 A b | |
| Aluminium mg kg−1 | Organic | 4.2 ± 0.4 A a | 4.9 ± 0.5 A a |
| Conventional | 4.2 ± 0.3 A a | 3.0 ± 0.3 A b | |
For each parameter assessed means labelled with the same capital letter within rows and lower-case letter within columns are not significant different (Turkey’s honestly significant difference test P < 0.05).