Folate vitamers in the Australian green plum: Through growth and ripening and across locations
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Hong, Hung
Schirra, Horst Joachim
Smyth, Heather E
Sultanbawa, Yasmina
Rychlik, Michael
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The green plum is a native fruit of Australia that grows on the tree Buchanania obovata. This study aimed to confirm the high level of folate in green plums by analyzing a large number of ripe samples from multiple locations and to understand how folate vitamers change as the fruit grows through maturity stages. This study analyzed green plums for five vitamers of folate, H4folate, 5-CH3-H4folate, 5-CHO-H4folate, 10-CHO-PteGlu, and PteGlu (folic acid) using a stable isotope dilution assay on a liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer (LC-MS). Green plums were tested from four locations, two harvests and five maturity stages. Another 11 ripe samples, each from different tree clumps from one location, were also tested as were ripe red-colored green plums. The results show the 5-CH3-H4folate in green plum increases and accumulates in the fruit through development, ripening and senescence. The ripe green plums contain between 82.4 ± 5.5 and 149.4 ± 10.7 μg/100 g Fresh Weight (FW). The red-colored green plums are even higher in folate, with total folate measured as 192.5 ± 7.0 and 293.7 ± 27.4 μg/100 g FW, and further analysis of them is suggested. There is some variation in amounts of folate between fruit from different locations and sets of trees, but all ripe green plums tested are considered good dietary sources of folate.
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Frontiers in Nutrition
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© 2022 Fyfe, Hong, Schirra, Smyth, Sultanbawa and Rychlik. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Agriculture, land and farm management
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green plum
Buchanania obovata
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Fyfe, S; Hong, H; Schirra, HJ; Smyth, HE; Sultanbawa, Y; Rychlik, M, Folate vitamers in the Australian green plum: Through growth and ripening and across locations, Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022, 9, pp. 1006393