Preliminary results of ‘Timočanka’ plum cultivar storability

‘Timočanka’ is a dessert plum cultivar created in Fruit Research Institute, Čačak. Although it has excellent fruit’s physical attributes, its storage potential has not been investigated so far. Commercial quality demands of plum cultivars aimed for fresh consumption mainly refer to physical properties, but nowadays an increased trend in society is healthy consumerism, particularly referring to bioactive compounds. For this reason, the presented study included evaluation of, not only physical properties of plum fruit, but also determination of total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity. No significant changes of fruit weight and soluble solids content after 21 days of cold storage were observed. Fruit firmness’ values were high on both analysis dates, notwithstanding fruit softening occurred during storage. Although ‘Timočanka’ is characterized by relatively low content of total phenols, the values of antioxidant capacity indicate that its consumption can increase the daily antioxidants intake.