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| Provedor de dados: |
CIGR Journal
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| País: |
China
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| Título: |
Effect of natural and synthetic fruit coatings on the postharvest quality of kinnow mandarins
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| Autores: |
Ali, Muhammad Azhar
Zulfiqar, Adnan
Arif, Atta Muhammad
Khan, Abdul-Rahim
Iqbal, Zafar
Khan, Muhammad Azam
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| Data: |
2015-03-23
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Natural fruit coating
Kinnow mandarins
Synthetic fruit coating
Morpholine
Ammonia
Ethanol
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| 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>0.05). Therefore, it could be suggested that the natural fruit coating is a good alternative of the synthetic fruit coating.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2894
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| Editor: |
International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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| Relação: |
http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2894/2014
http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/downloadSuppFile/2894/966
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application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal; Vol 17, No 1 (2015): CIGR Journal
1682-1130
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