Characterization and Comparison of Raw Brassica and Grass Field Sensorial and Nutritional Quality

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

From a scientific point of view, I did not find any serious error, especially in terms of methodology and statistical calculations.

However, minor formal deficiencies and typos were found, namely +3 should be in upper index (147), small letter t in word tables (188); it should be big letter T, missing spaces between values and units (lines 151, 305), etc. Please, deep control is necessary.

Values of TAC1 should be presented as mg Trolox/g instead of (µM Trolox/g fw) in all Tables and in whole text.

I believe that all my comments will help to improve your contribution.

With the best regards!

Your reviewer

Author Response

REVIEWER 1

Dear authors,

From a scientific point of view, I did not find any serious error, especially in terms of methodology and statistical calculations.

However, minor formal deficiencies and typos were found, namely +3 should be in upper index (147), small letter t in word tables (188); it should be big letter T, missing spaces between values and units (lines 151, 305), etc. Please, deep control is necessary.

We thank the reviewer for the comment. We checked the entire document and we fixed the formal deficiencies indicated. All the changes are visible through the track-changes tool.

Values of TAC1 should be presented as mg Trolox/g instead of (µM Trolox/g fw) in all Tables and in whole text.

We thank the reviewer for the comment and we apologize for the mistake. As indicated in the “Materials and methods” chapter, we now express the TAC data as mM Trolox/kg fw.

I believe that all my comments will help to improve your contribution.

With the best regards!

Your reviewer

Reviewer 2 Report

Applsci-1885070

The manuscript entitles “Characterization and comparison of raw Brassica and grass field sensorial and nutritional quality” has been written well and have some comments below:

In abstract Please add the values which you find highest..

In Keywords section, Keywords should be different from the title.

In intro part please give reference for the first paragraph.

Line no 44; In Introduction part, Authors should remove the word “We” before start the sentence. It should not be start like, It should be like….. The present study investigate……… Also remove “We” words from throughout the paper.

In methodology. Remove the paragraph as you used chemicals purchased”

I am wonder that authors gave statement that this study have been conducted in two consecutive years, but not mentioned inside the methodology that which consecutive years this study have been undertaken.

Also authors need to rewrite results and should include the data also in text. In which kindly mention which vegetable having maximum value for particular parameter.

References should be according to the journals guideline. And follow same format for all the references.

English language must be improved in throughout the manuscript.

Author Response

REVIEWER 2

The manuscript entitles “Characterization and comparison of raw Brassica and grass field sensorial and nutritional quality” has been written well and have some comments below:

In abstract Please add the values which you find highest..

We thank the reviewer for the comment: we added in the abstract a couple of more interesting data (no more than these, to not lengthen too much the abstract).

In Keywords section, Keywords should be different from the title.

We thank the reviewer for the suggestion, we changed the first two keywords.

In intro part please give reference for the first paragraph.

We added a new reference (number 1: Timpanaro, G.; Di Vita, G.; Foti, V.T.; Branca, F. Landraces in Sicilian peri-urban horticulture: a participatory approach to brassica production system. Acta Hortic. 2013, 1005, 213-220.) at the end of the first paragraph, to underline the economic opportunity for the growers cultivating these vegetables.

Line no 44; In Introduction part, Authors should remove the word “We” before start the sentence. It should not be start like, It should be like….. The present study investigate……… Also remove “We” words from throughout the paper.

We apologize for this mistake. We have removed the “We” from the manuscript and rephrased that sentence. We also checked the whole manuscript.

In methodology. Remove the paragraph as you used chemicals purchased”

We thank the reviewer for the comment. However, we believe that could be important for the readers to know where we have purchased all the reagents that we used, in case they want to reply our experiments. For this reason, we prefer to maintain the paragraph on reagents.

I am wonder that authors gave statement that this study have been conducted in two consecutive years, but not mentioned inside the methodology that which consecutive years this study have been undertaken.

We apologize for the missing information. We have now indocated the two years of study (2016 and 2017).

Also authors need to rewrite results and should include the data also in text. In which kindly mention which vegetable having maximum value for particular parameter.

We thank the reviewer for the comment. We have now added some interesting data for particular parameters in the chapter or “Results and discussion”.

References should be according to the journals guideline. And follow same format for all the references.

We checked again the references and we believe that they follow the journals guidelines.

English language must be improved in throughout the manuscript.

We checked again the English language carefully throughout the whole manuscript.