Claim · model-written summary
The coating improved pear storage and sensory quality relative to uncoated fruit.
- Treatment
- antifungal edible coatinge0
- Outcome
- storage quality of the pearse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- uncoated samplese0
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Verbatim
e0“the antifungal edible coating improved the storage quality of the pears and maintained consumable and better sensory quality compared to uncoated samples”
Title
William Oyom; Hengping Xu; Zhitian Liu; et al. LWT 2021. doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2021.112475
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect The coating reduced Alternaria rot lesions on infected pear.
- Intervention effect Coating delayed changes in fruit color, firmness, and chlorophyll degradation.
- Intervention effect Coating suppressed the climacteric rise in pear respiration.
- Intervention effect Coating minimized pear weight loss.
- Intervention effect Pear stomatal density was preserved under coating.
- Recommendation The authors suggest the essential-oil starch coating as a postharvest preservation method.