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  • Sweet pepper is a significant economic fruit with vital nutritional benefits, and the study focused on its bioactive compounds and antioxidant levels across 18 landraces at two maturity stages (green and red).
  • The ripening process notably increased most bioactive compounds, with red fruits showing substantial gains, indicating that ripeness is crucial for enhancing fruit quality.
  • Certain landraces, like P-44 and P-46, stood out for their high levels of carotenoids, antioxidants, and phenolic compounds, highlighting the variability in bioactive concentration and the role of traditional landraces in agricultural biodiversity and potential breeding efforts.

Article Abstract

Sweet pepper is one of the most important economic fruits with nutritional attributes. In this sense, the nutraceutical value of consumed products is a major concern nowadays so the content of some bioactive compounds and antioxidants (phenols, ascorbic acid, lycopene, carotenoids, chlorophylls, and antioxidant activity) was monitored in 18 sweet pepper landraces at two maturity stages (green and red). All the traits except chlorophylls significantly increased in red fruits (between 1.5- and 2.3-fold for phenols, ascorbic acid, and 2-2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) inhibition activity, 4.8-fold for carotenoid and 27.4-fold for lycopene content), which suggests that ripening is key for obtaining desired fruit quality. Among landraces, P-44 in green fruits is highlighted for its content in carotenoids, chlorophylls, phenols, and ascorbic acid, and P-46 for its antioxidant capacity and lycopene content. Upon maturity, P-48, P-44, and P-41 presented higher levels of phenols and lycopene, and P-39 of phenols, carotenoid, and DPPH. This work reflects a wide variability in the 18 pepper landraces at bioactive compounds concentration and in relation to fruit ripeness. The importance of traditional landraces in terms of organoleptic properties is emphasized as they are the main source of agricultural biodiversity today and could be helpful for breeders to develop new functional pepper varieties.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7919661PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26041031DOI Listing

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