2.5.1. Ascorbic acid quantification

2.5.1. Ascorbic acid quantification
For the quantification of ascorbic acid strawberry pulp
was centrifuged (5 min, 10000 rpm) and the supernatant
was used, to avoid interferences with the detection
method. A commercial enzymatic kit was used to
determine ascorbic acid concentration (kit Boehringer
N8 409677), obtained from Boehringer, Manhein, Germany
(Castro, Gonc¸alves, Teixeira & Vicente, 2002).
Although not specifically required by the method’s