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Provedor de dados: | 64
País: | Brazil
Título: | Effect of cut type on fresh-cut 'menina brasileira' zucchini quality
Autores: | Boas,Brígida Monteiro Vilas; Alves,Juliana Alvarenga; Boas,Eduardo Valério de Barros Vilas.
Data: | 2011-12-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Cucurbita moschata; Quality; Storage.
Resumo: | Market sales of ready-to-use fresh fruit and vegetables have grown quickly in the recent years as a result of changes in consumer attitudes. The goal of this work was to evaluate the effect of two kinds of cuts on the physiological, physical, physical-chemical, chemical and biochemical traits of fresh-cut 'Menina Brasileira' zucchini stored in rigid polypropylene packages, with lids of the same material containing sliced and grated zucchini and stored at 5º C, for 15 days. The variables respiratory rate, pH, L* value, soluble pectin, PME and PG activity, was interactively affected by the cut type and storage time factors. The variables mass loss, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity and total pectin variable were only significantly affected by storage time factor. It can be concluded that sliced 'Menina Brasileira' zucchini shows a higher titratable acidity and soluble solids and a lower respiratory rate, pectin soluble and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity when compared with grated zucchini, contributing to the preservation of quality attributes.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542011000600019
Editor: | Editora da Universidade Federal de Lavras
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-70542011000600019
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ciência e Agrotecnologia  v.35 n.6 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess