Advances in Agriculture and Agricultural Sciences

Advances in Agriculture and Agricultural Sciences ISSN 2756-326X Vol. 10 (6), pp. 001-004, June, 2024. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Correlation between Carrot Firmness and Water Content and Total Soluble Solids

Majid Rashidi* and Mohammad Gholami

Department of Agricultural Machinery, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran.

Accepted 21 February, 2024

Abstract

Carrot firmness (FIR) is often determined using difficult and time consuming laboratory tests, but it may be more appropriate and economical to develop a method which uses easily available and known quality characteristics of carrot such as water content (WC) and total soluble solids (TSS). In this study, typical two variables linear regression model for predicting FIR of Nantes carrot based on WC and TSS of carrot was suggested. The statistical results of the study indicated that in order to predict carrot FIR based on WC and TSS of carrot, the two variables linear regression model FIR = -2805.8 + 64.9 WC + 36.4 TSS with R2 = 0.84 can be strongly recommended.

Key words: Carrot, quality characteristics, prediction, modeling, firmness, water content, total soluble solids.