Claim · model-written summary
Chitosan (1.5%) coating maintained higher fruit appearance score in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Taxon
- guava (Psidium guajava L. cv. Pant Prabhat)
Psidium guajavat0 - Material
- Pant Prabhatt0
- Treatment
- chitosan (1.5%) coatinge1
- Outcome
- fruit appearancee1
- Direction
- higherinferrede1
- Value
- 8.32e1
- Comparator
- uncoated fruitse0
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Verbatim
t0“guava (Psidium guajava L. cv. Pant Prabhat)”
e0“while the uncoated fruits serve as control”
e1“In all treatments, chitosan (1.5%) coating was effective in maintaining superoxide dismutase activity (69.48 units/g fruit weight), total phenolics content (333.35 mg GAE/100 g fresh weight), fruit appearance (8.32), fruit flavour (8.21) and fruit texture (8.28)”
Title
Ankit Kumar; Omveer Singh; Karishma Kohli Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2017
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Chitosan (1.5%) coating maintained higher superoxide dismutase activity in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Chitosan (1.5%) coating maintained higher total phenolics content in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Chitosan (1.5%) coating maintained higher fruit flavour score in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Chitosan (1.5%) coating maintained higher fruit texture score in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera 1:1 gel coating maintained higher total flavonoids content in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera 1:1 gel coating maintained higher total antioxidants capacity in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera 1:1 gel coating maintained higher fruit colour score in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera 1:1 gel coating maintained higher fruit taste score in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera 1:1 gel coating maintained higher overall acceptability in guava fruits than uncoated fruits.
- Recommendation A 1.5% chitosan coating followed by Aloe vera 1:1 gel coating is recommended to extend guava shelf life and maintain post-harvest quality.