ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Mineral Composition of Fruits of Actinidia Arguta
and Actinidia Purpurea and Some of Their Hybrid
Cultivars Grown in Northeastern Poland
Anna Bieniek
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Department of Horticulture, Olsztyn, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
Romana Prawocheńskiego 21, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2012;21(6):1543-1550
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ABSTRACT
Actinidia arguta and Actinidia purpurea provide tasty and nutritionally valuable fruit that are edible
directly or after processing, without peeling. The aim of the study was to determine the content of macro- and
microelements in the fruit of three Ukrainian hybrid cultivars of Actinidia arguta × Actinidia purpurea:
‘Figurnaja,’ ‘Kijewskaja Gibrydnaja,’ ‘Kijewskaja Krupnopłodnaja,’ Actinidia arguta: ‘Sientiabrskaja,’ and
Actinidia purpurea: ‘Purpurowaja Sadowaja’ during five years of cultivation (2006-11) in northeastern Poland.
Determining the chemical composition of actinidia fruit yields was performed after wet mineralization. The
results have shown that fruit of the ‘Sientiabrskaja’ cultivar of Actnidia arguta contained the highest concentrations
of N, P, Ca, and Mg, as well as Cu and Mn. Fruit of the ‘Purpurowaja Sadowaja’ cultivar of Actinidia
purpurea contained the highest concentrations of K and Zn. Fruit of hybrid cultivars ‘Figurnaja,’ ‘Kijewskaja
Gibrydnaja’ and ‘Kijewskaja Krupnopłodnaja’ were found to contain the lowest concentrations of N, Ca, Mg,
and Zn. Fruit of ‘Figurnaja’ and ‘Kijewskaja Gibrydnaja’ contained similar amounts of P, Ca, and Mg, but their
Na content was different.