TY - JOUR AU - Vargas-Calvo, Alfonso PY - 2003/09/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Morphological description and nutritional of fruits of rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum). JF - Agronomía Mesoamericana JA - Agron. Mesoam. VL - 14 IS - 2 SE - Technical Notes DO - 10.15517/am.v14i2.11949 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/agromeso/article/view/11949 SP - 201-206 AB - <p>The study was</p><p>conducted with the rambutan (Nephelium  lappaceum)</p><p>cultivars R-134, R-162, R-167, Jitlee and Rongrien. All</p><p>cultivars showed red oval fruits with spines, which turned red</p><p>later than the rind did. The fruit weigth (32.7 to 37.3 g), flesh</p><p>per fruit (40.8 to 51.9%), Brix (18.3 to 18.6) and the easily</p><p>flesh removal from the seed, agreed with the quality</p><p>standards for fresh fruit export or canning. The N was the</p><p>most abundant nutrient in the fruit (77 to 87 mg), followed in</p><p>decreasing order by K (63 to 81 mg), Ca (22 to 31 mg), P (11</p><p>to 13 mg), Mg (9 to 13 mg) and S (4 to 6). The contents of</p><p>Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn and B were small (lower than 0,38 mg).</p> ER -