Claim · model-written summary
Organic apples averaged 15.6% more flavonols across three years.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- organic applese0
- Outcome
- content of flavonolse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 15.6 %e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The content of flavonols was 22.7 % higher in organic apples in the first year and 15.6 % in the average of the three years”
t0“APPLES”
Title
Franco Weibel; D. Treutter; Andi Häseli; et al. Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) 2004
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Organic apples had 14% firmer flesh in year one.
- Intervention effect Organic apples had a 10% higher inner quality index in year one.
- Intervention effect Organic apples had 15% higher taste scores in year one.
- Intervention effect Organic apple flesh had 31% higher phosphorus content.
- Association Fruit phosphorus content correlated with inner quality index at r² 0.93.
- Association Fruit phosphorus content correlated with sensory score at r² 0.69.
- Association No soil phosphorus extraction method correlated with fruit phosphorus content.
- Association Fruit-flesh phosphorus correlated with soil microbial activity at r² 0.72.
- Observation Soil microbial carbon-to-nitrogen ratio was 44.5% lower in organic tree strips.
- Observation Flavanols accounted for 65.7% of total polyphenols and were the dominant group.
- Intervention effect Organic apples had 22.7% more flavonols in year one.
- Method / resource Self-degradation testing found no significant treatment differences.
- Observation Laboratory rats tended to prefer integrated apples.
- Method / resource The picture-forming method had repeated-blind-sample reproducibility r² 0.83.
- Method / resource The picture-forming method correctly distinguished all organic and integrated fruit in year one.
- Method / resource The picture-forming method misclassified one sample in year two.
- Intervention effect Organic apples had a 44.6% higher vitality quality index averaged across three dates.
- Association Picture-forming measures correlated with sensory scores and standard quality at r² 0.63 in year one.