Claim · model-written summary
Chitosan at 2% gave the lowest rate of Valencia orange fruit weight loss.
- Taxon
- Valencia Orange
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- chitosan at 2%e0
- Outcome
- weight losse0
- Direction
- loweste0
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Verbatim
t0“Valencia Orange”
e0“chitosan at 2% showed the lowest rates of weight loss and pectin methylesterase activity”
Title
Does the Quality of Valencia Orange Vary in Response to Different Coatings during Cold Storage?
Emad Khedr Egyptian Journal of Horticulture 2017. doi:10.21608/ejoh.2018.2220.1031
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Chitosan at 1 or 2% produced one of the lowest significant decay percentages in stored Valencia orange.
- Intervention effect Paraffin at 99% produced one of the lowest significant decay percentages in stored Valencia orange.
- Intervention effect Chitosan at 2% gave the lowest pectin methylesterase activity in Valencia orange fruit.
- Intervention effect Chitosan at 2% maintained Valencia orange fruit colour brightness and hardness relative to uncoated fruit.
- Intervention effect The applied films significantly affected Valencia orange respiration rate relative to untreated fruit, with direction unspecified.
- Intervention effect The applied films significantly affected Valencia orange ascorbic acid content relative to untreated fruit, with direction unspecified.