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Provedor de dados: | 111
País: | China
Título: | Effect of natural and synthetic fruit coatings on the postharvest quality of kinnow mandarins
Autores: | Ali, Muhammad Azhar; Zulfiqar, Adnan; Arif, Atta Muhammad; Khan, Abdul-Rahim; Iqbal, Zafar; Khan, Muhammad Azam.
Data: | 2015-03-23
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Natural fruit coating; Kinnow mandarins; Synthetic fruit coating; Morpholine; Ammonia; Ethanol.
Resumo: | Natural products are more preferred by consumers now-a-days over the synthetic ones. Therefore a natural fruit coating was developed from natural ingredients (shellac, rosin, gum arabic, water and ethanol from sugar industry) without ammonia or morpholine as an alternative to the synthetic coatings. So this research was devised to compare the effects of this newly developed natural fruit coating (with 9% total solids) with those of synthetic one (polyethylene based ammonia containing wax with 21% total solids) on the postharvest quality of kinnow (Citrus reticulata Blanco) mandarins. The kinnow mandarins were either coated with natural or synthetic fruit coatings or were left uncoated and stored at 5±2°C with 85-90% relative humidity for 63 days with five replications for each treatment. The results showed that both fruit coatings significantly (p0.05) changes in total soluble solids and fruit acidity were recorded for all the treatments. Furthermore the difference between natural and synthetic fruit coatings was non-significant (p&gt;0.05). Therefore, it could be suggested that the natural fruit coating is a good alternative of the synthetic fruit coating.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2894
Editor: | International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Relação:

http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2894/2014

http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/downloadSuppFile/2894/966

Formato: | application/pdf

Fonte:

Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal; Vol 17, No 1 (2015): CIGR Journal

1682-1130