Summary
Apples contain substances with health-promoting properties, among them, triterpenes, including oleanolic acid (OA) and ursolic acid (UA), which are thought to have anti-inflammatory activity as well as inhibiting initiation, promotion, and metastasis of cancer. This study evaluated effects of harvest time, rootstock, and storage method on two major triterpenes in apple peel, to enhance the understanding of the relative importance of cultivation and environmental factors influencing triterpene concentration. OA and UA concentrations in the semi-dwarfing ‘MM.106’ rootstock apples were significantly higher than in the dwarfing ‘M.9’ rootstock apples at the majority of harvest times over the 2 years of investigations. In 2012 at harvest time, highest concentrations of OA and UA in ‘MM.106’ roo
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