Abstract
ABSTRACT Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) is a popular fruit, grown worldwide for its culinary usages in fresh, processed and cooked foods. Additionally, consumption of tomato fruit is associated with health benefits due to their functional food properties. The signature hedonic measures of tomato fruits are their flavour, aroma and colour, which function as drivers of consumer perception of quality and are therefore associated with purchasing habits. Accordingly, there is interest in strategies to enhance these hedonic measures through supplementation of fertiliser regimens with biostimulants, which have demonstrated improvements to hedonic measures of other food crops. Herein, tomatoes were grown hydroponically with and without supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC) comprising molasses, Aloe vera extract and fish‐hydrolysate. Results identified significant increases in flower and fruit count (1.68‐fold, p = 0.033), improvements to the hedonic measures of overall mouthfeel ( p = 0.022) and overall visual assessment ( p = 0.005), however decreased flavonoid content (0.61‐fold, p = 0.022). Accordingly, supplementation of tomato growth with BC was associated with enhancements to the quantity and hedonic quality of tomato at the cost of functional food quality. These findings support the utilisation of biostimulants to enhance food goods’ cultivation and quality perception.
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Claim · model-written summary
Biostimulant supplementation significantly increased tomato flower and fruit count 1.68-fold.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC)e0
- Outcome
- flower and fruit counte0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 1.68‐folde0
- Comparator
- without supplementatione0
- Setting
- hydroponicallye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Herein, tomatoes were grown hydroponically with and without supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC) comprising molasses, Aloe vera extract and fish‐hydrolysate. Results identified significant increases in flower and fruit count (1.68‐fold, p = 0.033)”
Claim · model-written summary
Supplementation improved overall mouthfeel.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC)e0
- Outcome
- overall mouthfeele0
- Direction
- improvementse0
- Comparator
- without supplementatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with and without supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC) comprising molasses, Aloe vera extract and fish‐hydrolysate. Results identified significant increases in flower and fruit count (1.68‐fold, p = 0.033), improvements to the hedonic measures of overall mouthfeel ( p = 0.022)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Supplementation improved overall visual assessment.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC)e0
- Outcome
- overall visual assessmente0
- Direction
- improvementse0
- Comparator
- without supplementatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with and without supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC) comprising molasses, Aloe vera extract and fish‐hydrolysate. Results identified significant increases in flower and fruit count (1.68‐fold, p = 0.033), improvements to the hedonic measures of overall mouthfeel ( p = 0.022) and overall visual assessment ( p = 0.005)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Supplementation decreased tomato flavonoid content 0.61-fold.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC)e0
- Outcome
- flavonoid contente0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 0.61‐folde0
- Comparator
- without supplementatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with and without supplementation of a biostimulant complex (BC) comprising molasses, Aloe vera extract and fish‐hydrolysate. Results identified significant increases in flower and fruit count (1.68‐fold, p = 0.033), improvements to the hedonic measures of overall mouthfeel ( p = 0.022) and overall visual assessment ( p = 0.005), however decreased flavonoid content (0.61‐fold, p = 0.022)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors support using biostimulants to enhance cultivation and perceived quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- utilisation of biostimulants to enhance food goods’ cultivation and quality perceptione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These findings support the utilisation of biostimulants to enhance food goods’ cultivation and quality perception.”
t0“tomato”
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