Nutritive Value, Shelf life and Yield Potential of Strawberry

Two experiments was conducted to find out the nutritional quality, storage periods, yield and yield contributing characteristics of five strawberry genotypes namely Rabi-3, Camarosa, BARI Strawberry-1, BADC Strawberry and Festival. Highest ascorbic acid (45.76 mg/100g) under fresh condition was obtained by Rabi-3 and Beta-carotene (15.09 IU/100g) by Festival. Maximum amount of reducing sugar (6.373 g/100g) was recorded in Camarosa and non-reducing sugar (2.947 g/100g) in Festival. Most of Ca (0.480%) in BADC Strawberry, Fe (93.50 ppm) in Rabi-3, P (0.081%) and K (0.854%) in BARI Strawberry-1 was found. Shelf life of Camarosa was highest and BADC Strawberry was lowest. Maximum yield (12.94 t/ha) was obtained from Festival and minimum (6.15 t/ha) from BADC Strawberry.