TABLE 4.

Means (± SE), soluble solid (SSC), (°Brix), total acid (TA), (g citric acid L^–1), total phenolic (TPs) (mg equivalent gallic acid L^–1), and ascorbic acid (mg L^–1) contents and total antioxidant capacity (TAC_DPPH) (mg equivalent ascorbic acid L^–1), in fruit from pomegranate (cv. Wonderful) trees treated with 0.5 mM (ASA1), 1.0 mM (ASA2) acetylsalicylic acid, or water (control) in 2011 and 2012.

	2011			2012			ANOVA
	Control	ASA1	ASA2	Control	ASA1	ASA2	ASA	Year	Year x ASA
SSC	16.2 ± 0.2	16.7 ± 0.2	16.1 ± 0.3	16.6 ± 0.2	17.1 ± 0.3	16.5 ± 0.2	0.030	0.040	0.996
TA	28.0 ± 1.5	30.1 ± 1.3	30.0 ± 1.3	23.8 ± 1.8	25.1 ± 1.4	28.3 ± 1.1	0.182	0.011	0.513
MI	5.9 ± 0.3	5.6 0.3	6.5 ± 0.3	7.2 ± 0.5	6.9 ± 0.3	5.9 ± 0.3	0.072	0.001	0.335
TPs	2,427.8 ± 52.7	2,488.0 ± 58.0	2,452.8 ± 91.7	1,897.0 ± 42.7	1,830.7 ± 78.2	1,905.2 ± 96.5	0.959	<0.001	0.661
TACDPPH	2,450.4 ± 28.8 a	2,606.2 ± 59.4 b	2,434.3 ± 68.7 ab	2,607.6 ± 36.1	2,801.2 ± 30.4	2,734.3 ± 29.7	0.475	0.189	0.007
Ascorbic acid	21.4 ± 0.7	22.7 ± 0.9	20.6 ± 1.5	18.7 ± 0.6	19.5 ± 1.2	19.0 ± 0.7	0.401	0.005	0.716
% edible portion	46.0 ± 0.7	48.1 ± 0.5	48.2 ± 0.7	49.0 ± 1.9	48.7 ± 3.7	47.6 ± 4.2	0.880	0.512	0.601
% juice	31.5 ± 0.7	33.2 ± 0.6	31.3 ± 0.5	34.3 ± 1.5	33.7 ± 2.6	33.0 ± 3.2	0.657	0.148	0.708
100 seed weight	38.1 ± 0.7	37.1 ± 1.0	36.9 ± 0.9	35.5 ± 0.8	35.5 ± 0.7	35.3 ± 0.9	0.773	0.054	0.830
% red				35.0 ± 4.0 b	65.0 ± 3.8 a	67.0 ± 6.0a	<0.001
L*				55.1 ± 1.1 a	47.1 ± 0.8 b	45.6 ± 1.2 b	<0.001
a*				43.6 ± 1.2 b	50.2 ± 1.0 a	51.2 ± 1.1 a	<0.001
b*				21.7 ± 0.3	22.4 ± 0.5	22.6 ± 0.7	0.220
H*				26.6 ± 0.4 a	22.9 ± 0.4 b	23.8 ± 0.7 b	<0.001
C*				48.7 ± 1.0 b	54.2 ± 0.6 a	56.0 ± 0.9 a	<0.001

ANOVA results from the effects of year and ASA treatment and their interaction are presented. Means with different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05 in the same year. The asteristics is part of CIELAB color parameter identifications.