SENSORY EVALUATION OF 17 ELDERBERRY CULTIVARS GROWN IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

The aim of this study was to sensory evaluate fruit quality characters of elderberry cultivars ‘Albida’, ‘Allesö’, ‘Aurea’, ‘Bohatka’, ‘Dana’, ‘Haschberg’, ‘Heidegg 13’, ‘Korsør’, ‘Mammut’, ‘Pregarten’, ‘Riese aus Voßloch’, ‘Sambo’, ‘Sambu’, ‘Samdal’, ‘Sampo’, ‘Samyl’ and ‘Weihenstephan’. The collection (3 plants of each cultivar) was planted in the north-east part of the Czech Republic at an altitude of 320 m and spacing of 3 × 2 m.
In two consecutive years (2010-2011), the following characters were evaluated: appearance, juiciness, aroma, flavor and overall taste.
A nine-point evaluation scale was used with one the lowest, and nine the highest level of the character.
A total point score was the sum of points of all evaluated characters.
Significant differences among several cultivars were found in all observed characteristics except juiciness.
The highest score obtained was by the Austrian cultivar ‘Heidegg 13’, which showed satisfactory values for all evaluated characters.
Two Slovak cultivars ‘Dana’ and ‘Bohatka’ followed. ‘Dana’ differed from ‘Heidegg 13’ in appearance, which was lower by only 0.5 points.
Danish cultivar ‘Samdal’, Austrian cultivar ‘Haschberg’ and German cultivar ‘Weihenstephan’ also obtained high scores.
In contrast, the lowest scored cultivars were ‘Albida’ and ‘Aurea’.

I International Symposium on Elderberry

J. Kaplan, A. Matějíček, J. Matějíčková

Sambucus, fruit, taste, flavor, aroma, characters, comparison

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2015.1061.23