three groups based on the development stage of the fruit, namely immature (green), mature (yellow) and ripe (red). At each market, 2–3 fruits were sampled from three representative outlets. The fruits were cleaned and separated into pulp, peel seed and aril (seed pulp) of the ripe fruit. Single composite samples for each representative market, were prepared by combining about 500 g of homogenised single sample of the same fruit from three representative outlets and then homogenising again to obtain a uniform single composite sample. The samples were freeze-dried and stored in a freezer (20 C) until further analysis. The descriptions of the fruit characteristics are given in Table 1.