Response to Comment on Effect of Drying of Jujubes (Ziziphus jujuba

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Response to Comment on Effect of Drying of Jujubes (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) on the Contents of Sugars, Organic Acids, #-Tocopherol, #-Carotene, and Phenolic Compounds Qing Han Gao, and Min Wang J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/jf400098v • Publication Date (Web): 17 Apr 2013 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on April 25, 2013

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Response to Comment on Effect of Drying of Jujubes

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(Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) on the Contents of Sugars, Organic

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Acids, α-Tocopherol, β-Carotene, and Phenolic

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Compounds

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Qing-Han Gao,† and Min Wang*,†

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College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F

University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People’s Republic of China

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We are responding to comments from Dr. John S. Salter Jr. and

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Dr. Jonghoon Kang of Valdosta State University on our recently

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published paper.1 Before responding to these comments, we would

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like to restate the rationality of our work. The main objective was to

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evaluate the effect of drying of jujubes on the contents of sugars,

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organic acids, α-tocopherol, β-carotene, and phenolic compounds.

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Dr. John S. Salter Jr. and Dr. Jonghoon Kang analyzed the twelve

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variables (1: vanillic acid, 2: glucose, 3: ferulic acid, 4: fructose, 5:

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cinnamic acid, 6: rutin, 7: protocatechuic acid, 8: ABTS, 9: TPC, 10:

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malic acid, 11: citric acid, 12: succinic acid) of our data with principal

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component analysis (PCA). However, catechin and epicatechin

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were the two main phenolic compounds in our study, and vanillic

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acid, ferulic acid as well as cinnamic acid selected by Dr. John S.

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Salter Jr. and Dr. Jonghoon Kang are in a small amount.

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Furthermore, β-carotene is the most common carotenoid in fruits.2

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α-Tocopherol is the most important lipid-soluble antioxidant.3 Many

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studies have demonstrated that there are strong interactions

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between β-carotene and α-tocopherol based on their antioxidant

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effect.4,5,6 But α-tocopherol and β-carotene evaluated in our paper

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were not analyzed in their comment.

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However, we appreciate much of the comment from Dr. John S.

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Salter Jr. and Dr. Jonghoon Kang for analyzing our data with PCA. 2

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PCA is a mathematical tool which performs a reduction in data

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dimensionality and allows the visualisation of underlying structure

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in experimental data and relationships between data and

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samples.7,8 Therefore, PCA introduced in their comment may be

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applied to the evaluation of other food processing methods.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author

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*Telephone: +86-13032938796.

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E-mail: [email protected].

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Notes

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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