First evaluation of fruit quality of some new and old sour cherry cultivars in Hungarian climatic condition

Indeed, in the last decade a large number of new sour cherry cultivars with new notable flavor characteristics have been released.There is no enough information related to qualitative characteristics which consistently segregated based on their predominant sensorycharacteristics. The present study carried out at tow consecutive years (2008 and 2009) and examined some qualitative characters which arethe main importance in the specialty cherries trade, The main objective was to determine fruits quality of Érdi bôtermô, Oblacsinszka,Debreceni bôtermô, Csengôdi, Pándy 279, Éva, Kántorjánosi, Újfehértói fürtös and Petri sour cherry cultivars. Changes observed in majorcharacteristics such as fruit detachment force, width, length, weight, peduncle length, flesh firmness, brix, citric acid, Suger/acid ratio and pitweigh.While observed no change in flesh/pit ratio and Coordinate of colour (X*, y*, x*), hue angle and chroma value, in different years. Inall measured factors, there was significant difference between selected cultivars of sour cherry fruit. Debreceni bôtermô showed higher valuesof fruit detachment force in 2008, while had the lover of fruit detachment force in 2009. Fruit firmness of “Érdi bôtermô” were monitored atlover value in both 2-year