Not AvailableIndian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk), an indigenous fruit crop of India has been
widely used in traditional medicine for treating various kinds of diseases. Chinese jujube has been
studied; however systematic study on Indian jujube is lacking. In this work, 12 commercial cultivars
of Z. mauritiana were evaluated for their ascorbic acid (AA), total phenolics (TPH), flavonoids
(TF), and total antioxidant activity (AOX). Results indicate that Indian jujube is a good source
of ascorbic acid and total phenolics ranging from 19.54 to 99.49 mg/100 g and 172 to
328.6 mg GAE/100 g, respectively. Total AOX ranged from 7.41 to 13.93 and 8.01 to 15.13 lmol
Trolox/g in FRAP and CUPRAC, respectively. Principal component analysis was performed to
find a linear combination of the functional attributes which would account for most of the varianceNot Availabl
