Valuable Ingredients of Some Wild Fruits

Béla Zoltán Sipos1, Mónika Stéger-Máté2, Rita Tátraházi2, Éva Stefanovits-Bányai3,
Emőke Horváth-Kerkai2, and Gábor Schmidt4

1 Department of Pomology, Faculty of Horticulture Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
2 Department of Preservation, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
3 Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
4 Department of Floriculture and Dendrology, Faculty of Horticulture Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

Corresponding author: Béla Zoltán Sipos
    Department of Pomology, Faculty of Horticulture Science
    Szent István University
    Villányi út 29–31.
    H-1118 Budapest, Hungary
    Telephone: 36-1-3726200/6500
    E-mail address: siposb@omega.kee.hu

CEJOEM 2002, Vol.8. No.2–3.:162–166

Key words:
Wild fruits, vitamin C, minerals

Abstract:
A way of development of Hungarian agriculture is selection and growing of new fruit species and varieties featuring special qualities and having high nutritive and health protecting properties due to their natural composition. A reserve for such new fruits is the native dendroflora, e.g,. those wild-growing trees ands shrubs of Hungary which bear edible fruits. The research team on the project started the work with woody species (genera) of dog rose (Rosa canina) clones, native rowans (Sorbus dacica, S. rotundifolia, S. degenii, S. bakonyensis cv. Fánivölgy), hawthorns (Crataegus monogyna, C. orientalis, C. x lavalley), and cornel cherry (Cornus mas cv. Császló). The results have shown that these wild fruits have an excellent composition. Besides their curative effects, their content of minerals, ascorbic acid and ß-carotene has surpassed that of the traditional fruits. The high content in biologically active compounds makes the studied new wild fruits suitable for the preparation of special curative and exclusive products.

Received:  3 July 2002
Accepted:  29 November 2002
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