Table 2 Effects of different treatment conditions on bioactive substances content of pumpkin juice.

From: Effect of mixed fermentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus helveticus, Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus on physicochemical and flavor characteristics of pumpkin juice

Measuring indicators

Fresh

Sterilization

Fermentation

Vitamin C/(mg/100 mL)

2.26 ± 0.18b

1.06 ± 0.26c

2.79 ± 0.06a

Total phenolic/(mg GAE/100 mL)

70.77 ± 1.19c

83.59 ± 1.77b

106.31 ± 1.69a

Flavone/(mg RE/mL)

0.01 ± 0.00c

0.03 ± 0.00b

0.05 ± 0.00a

α-carotene(mg/L)

0.62 ± 0.00b

0.43 ± 0.00c

0.82 ± 0.00a

β-carotene(mg/L)

0.70 ± 0.00b

0.47 ± 0.01c

0.91 ± 0.00a

β-cryptoxanthin(mg/L)

0.75 ± 0.00b

0.50 ± 0.00c

0.97 ± 0.01a

Zeaxanthin(mg/L)

0.76 ± 0.00b

0.51 ± 0.00c

0.99 ± 0.01a

Lycopene(mg/L)

0.44 ± 0.00b

0.29 ± 0.00c

0.57 ± 0.01a

  1. The error bars represent the standard deviation from three independent replicates (n = 3). Here, it is expressed as mean ± standard deviation. The characters a, b, c in the upper right corner of the data indicate that there is a significant difference (p < 0.05)