Table 3.
Quantitative data from the EKC-DAD analysis of ripe and unripe carob pulp extracts.
| Compound | Concentration (μg/g carob pulp) |
% Content |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripe | Unripe | Ripe | Unripe | |
| Catechin | 4.63 ± 0.16 | n.q. | 2 | 0 |
| Naringenin | 12.79 ± 0.33 | n.d. | 5 | 0 |
| Cinnamic acid | 9.74 ± 0.20 | n.d. | 3 | 0 |
| Kaempferol | n.d. | n.d. | 0 | 0 |
| Chlorogenic acid | n.d. | 135.44 ± 1.89 | 0 | 15 |
| Quercetin | 19.84 ± 0.70 | 122.32 ± 1.81 | 7 | 13 |
| Myricetin | n.d. | 60.80 ± 1.58 | 0 | 7 |
| Catechol | 11.99 ± 0.62 | 33.86 ± 0.82 | 4 | 4 |
| Ferulic acid | 9.18 ± 0.79 | n.d. | 3 | 0 |
| Gentisic acid | 31.03 ± 1.03 | 190.85 ± 2.66 | 11 | 21 |
| Caffeic acid | n.d. | 164.20 ± 2.83 | 0 | 18 |
| Gallic acid | 183.92 ± 3.50 | 205.10 ± 1.77 | 65 | 22 |
| Total | 283.13 | 912.58 | 100 | 100 |
a) non-detected.
b) non-quantified.