Nutritional Value of New Sweet Pepper Genotypes Grown in Organic System

Creola Brezeanu, Petre Marian Brezeanu, Vasile Stoleru, Liviu Mihai Irimia, Florin Daniel Lipșa, Gabriel-Ciprian Teliban, Marius Mihai Ciobanu, Florin Murariu, Ioan Puiu, Ferdinando Branca () and Otilia Cristina Murariu ()
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Creola Brezeanu: Vegetable Research Development Station of Bacau, 600388 Bacau, Romania
Petre Marian Brezeanu: Vegetable Research Development Station of Bacau, 600388 Bacau, Romania
Vasile Stoleru: Department of Horticulture Technologies, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Liviu Mihai Irimia: Department of Horticulture Technologies, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Florin Daniel Lipșa: Department of Food Technology, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Gabriel-Ciprian Teliban: Department of Horticulture Technologies, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Marius Mihai Ciobanu: Department of Food Technology, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Florin Murariu: Department of Agroeconomy, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Ioan Puiu: Department of Plant Science, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Ferdinando Branca: Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, 95131 Catania, Italy
Otilia Cristina Murariu: Department of Food Technology, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, 700490 Iasi, Romania

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: The market request for organic vegetables has grown recently for their positive impact on healthy diets. Consumers have progressively shown preferences for various combinations of color, size, and shape of pepper fruits. Facilitating communication, collaboration, and participation in the selection of cultivars with superior performance, flavor, texture, and culinary attributes can represent a key tool in breeding for nutritional and culinary traits. The current research started from the premise that organic production involves achieving adequate nutritional and culinary quality of pepper fruits. The study was conducted to investigate traits related culinary quality of pepper genotypes, especially in the ripening phase of fruits, to select the best resources with a high antioxidant content for breeding programs. The biological material represented by nine genotypes of sweet pepper was cultivated in the open fields during 2019 and 2020 at the experimental stations of the Vegetable Research Development Station of Bacau and of Iasi University of Life Sciences. Agricultural practices and intensive breeding focused on yield and stress tolerance have indirectly led to a reduction in the nutrition and flavor of the produce. Complex approaches, including screening of consumer preferences, phenotyping, and use of modern genomics and analytical chemistry tools in breeding, together with participatory farmer-breeder-chef-consumer collaborations, can represent a strategy to facilitate the development of the next generation of crops aimed to meet the growing demands of safe and nutritionally vegetables featured by culinary standards as good flavor, color, and texture.

Keywords: organic; sweet pepper; lycopene; carotene; chlorophyll (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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