Representative of small fruit - gooseberry and its nutritional characteristics

Abstract

This bachelor thesis deals with less known fruit - gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa). The theoretical part describes the botanical characteristics of gooseberry: description of plant breeding and plant forms. Then selected varieties, pests and diseases of gooseberry are described. The following chapters include a list of active substances in the gooseberries and its treatment. In conclusion, the theoretical part describes the most common methods for the determination of pectin in fruit. The experimental part deals with the optimization of spectrophotometric methods for the determination of pectin and determination of pectin itself in gooseberry