Research Article

Proximate and Nutritional Composition of Stored Bulb Onions as Affected by Harvest and Postharvest Treatments

Table 6

Pearson’s correlation matrix between nutritional variables in stored bulb onions.

VariablesMC

Weight loss−0.703Weight loss
Protein0.6810.663Protein
Vitamin C0.8560.8800.724Vitamin C
Zn0.1910.3630.1770.316Zn
P−0.1630.4960.2150.2520.213P
K0.8330.5020.4960.6310.107−0.264K
Ca0.6000.5590.4280.5470.2010.1770.573Ca
Fe0.4790.2860.3380.450−0.007−0.1100.4470.199Fe
Na0.6780.8310.7960.829−0.2740.4250.4460.468−0.329

Values in bold are different from 0 with a significance level alpha = 0.05. Moisture content.