Some Physical Properties of Wood Apple (Feronia Limonia L.)

doi:10.29199/2638-9770/fsnr-201022

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Wood apple, traditionally known as poor man’s food, is native to India and traditionally has great demand for medicinal purposes
This study reveals that the lightness of pulp of ripe-matured fruit (21.1±6.38) was lower than the raw fruit (24.81±4.78)
Surface area of wood apple was computed by using Jean & Ball Physical characteristics of wood apple were evaluated in and MaCabe equation

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Traditionally known as poor man’s food, is native to India and traditionally has great demand for medicinal purposes. It is unpopular and underutilized fruit because of lack of mechanical technologies for plucking/ harvesting, picking, cracking, processing and transportation, separating and packing and for removing of pulp of wood apple. Physical properties (length, breadth, thickness, arithmetic mean diameter (AMD), geometric mean diameter (GMD), specific gravity, aspect ratio, pulp and peel content, etc) are necessary and important for fabrication/designing of such processing equipments. High value of sphericity (found between 74.3 and 99.7%) indicates that the wood apple fruit might follow the combination of rolling and sliding action on their flat surfaces. This study, could be the basis to provide fundamental knowledge for commercial level design of machines for post-harvest processing of wood apple

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