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Leaching of solutes and sloughing of potato tuber tissue

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Thin slices of tissue from low (1.075–1.078 and high (1.092–1.094) specific gravity tubers were soaked in distilled water (100g/250ml) for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 hours. Following the soak periods, the soak water and remaining tissues were separated and analyzed. Analyses of the soak water included pH, electrical conductivity, total solids, K, P and citric acid. The tissue analyses included total ash, alkalinity of ash, Ca, Mg, total N and phytate P. Other tissue samples were soaked the same periods of time and used to evaluate the amount of sloughing that occurred during cooking.

All constituents studied diffused into the water during the soak periods. The greatest loss from the slices occurred in the first 2 to 3 hours and were similar for both specific gravity groups. After 6 hours the average amounts of material in the soak water were: total solids — 23%, P — 68%, phytate P —55%, K — 71%, total ash — 62%, total nitrogen — 56%, Ca — 35% and Mg —50%. Citric acid diffused into the soak water during the first 3 hours and the amount in the water then decreased. This apparent change may be due to metabolism of the acid. The sloughing of tissue decreased with the length of the soak period. The decrease in sloughing was highly correlated (P<1 %) with the length of the soak period, increases in electrical conductivity of the soak water, and with the leaching of all constituents measured.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Soils, University of Idaho, 83843, Moscow, Idaho

    W. C. Davis & D. J. Le Tourneau (Research Professor)

  2. Department of Home Economics Research, University of Idaho, 83843, Moscow, Idaho

    Mary V. Zaehringer (Research Professor) & Helen H. Cunningham (Assistant Research Profesor)

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Published with the approval of the Director of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station as Research Paper No. 918.

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Davis, W.C., Le Tourneau, D.J., Zaehringer, M.V. et al. Leaching of solutes and sloughing of potato tuber tissue. American Potato Journal 50, 35–41 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855366

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