Abstract
Influence of Coating Developed from Oligomer Isolated from Lac Resin on Post-Harvest Quality and Shelf Life of Peaches (Prunus Persica L.)
Highlights
It is well known that fruits and vegetables play a vital role in human diet as sources of calories, vitamins, dietary fiber and special nutraceuticals
Many fruits develop a waxy coat on their epidermis as they mature on the plant but this natural waxy coat is not adequate to offer protection against water loss and high respiration rate that follow when they are removed from the living tree, it leads to the spoilage of these fresh produce
Journal Home: https://boffinaccess.com/journals/methods-of-microbiology-molecular-biology/index.php it has been observed that fruit coatings indirectly induce changes in flavor due to delayed ripening or as a result of anaerobic respiration with increased ethanol concentrations and have to be carefully selected and used so that original texture, color and flavor of the fruits retained [30]
Summary
It is well known that fruits and vegetables play a vital role in human diet as sources of calories, vitamins, dietary fiber and special nutraceuticals. Many fruits develop a waxy coat on their epidermis as they mature on the plant but this natural waxy coat is not adequate to offer protection against water loss and high respiration rate that follow when they are removed from the living tree, it leads to the spoilage of these fresh produce Such postharvest losses can be reduced to some extent by increasing the wax content on fruit surface, utilizing low temperature technologies, efficient packaging, use of coatings, nanotechnology osmotic dehydration and irradiation etc [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. This research showed that higher pressure levels were more effective to inactivate enzymes and to preserve color than longer times [23]
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