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. 2021 Mar 2;26(5):1322. doi: 10.3390/molecules26051322

Table 4.

Free amino acids, metabolites (mg/g DM), and dry-matter (g/100 g FM) content in potatoes of different flesh colour cultivars as influenced by the time of storage.

Storage Time (Month)
0 3 6
Amino acid Asn 8.77 ± 1.52 a 8.09 ± 1.78 b 7,65 ± 2.47 c
Asp 1.78 ± 0.42 b 1.94 ± 0.43 a 1.55 ± 0.58 c
Gln 4.28 ± 1.82 a 3.56 ± 1.66 b 4.22 ± 2.15 a
Glu 1.92 ± 0.44 a,b 1.99 ± 0.47 a 1.82 ± 0.42 b
Arg 1.20 ± 0.69 a,b 1.16 ± 0.53 b 1.22 ± 0.57 a
Val 0.92 ± 0.23 b 0.92 ± 0.22 b 1,00 ± 0.39 a
GABA 0.86 ± 0.28 c 1.08 ± 0.36 b 1.48 ± 0.56 a
Pro 0.48 ± 0.18 c 0.66 ± 0.11 b 1.16 ± 0.59 a
Ala 0.17 ± 0.07 c 0.30 ± 0.12 b 0.57 ± 0.23 a
Tyr 0.46 ± 0.16 c 0.53 ± 0.14 b 0.59 ± 0.15 a
AAA 0.34 ± 0.38 b 0.50 ± 0.50 a,b 0.56 ± 0.73 a
Lys 0.49 ± 0.12 c 0.59 ± 0.17 b 0.66 ± 0.20 a
Ile 0.49 ± 0.13 a 0.50 ± 0.13 a 0.48 ± 0.12 a
Leu 0.20 ± 0.06 c 0.25 ± 0.07 b 0.33 ± 0.10 a
EA 0.29 ± 0.14 a 0.26 ± 0.07 a 0.31 ± 0.07 a
Ser 0.36 ± 0.12 c 0.48 ± 0.17 b 0,69 ± 0.38 a
Thr 0.32 ± 0.13 c 0.34 ± 0.15 b 0,40 ± 0.22 a
His 0.29 ± 0.06 c 0.33 ± 0.08 b 0.38 ± 0.10 a
Met 0.29 ± 0.09 a 0.25 ± 0.07 b 0.25 ± 0.10 b
Phe 0.28 ± 0.11 b 0.26 ± 0.09 b 0.30 ± 0.11 a
Gly 0.05 ± 0.02 b 0.09 ± 0.02 a 0.09 ± 0.03 a
Cys 0.05 ± 0.03 b 0.06 ± 0.02 a 0.06 ± 0.02 a
L-orn 0.08 ± 0.07 a 0.06 ± 0.03 b 0.06 ± 0.03 b
Total free aa (TAA) 24.38 ± 4.53 a 24.21 ± 4.62 a 25.87 ± 7.02 b
Dry matter 21.04 ± 1.98 b 21.90 ± 2.00 a 21.89 ± 1.52 a

Values are means of all cultivars and storage temperature ± standard deviation; n = 24, a–b the same letters within the same row are not significantly different.