Claim · model-written summary
Triple bags containing botanical leaves had significantly lower grain moisture than polypropylene and plain triple-bag controls.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- triple bagged bags with different proportions of biopesticidee0
- Outcome
- moisture levelse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Value
- 09.02±0.11% to 12.07± 0.06%e0
- Comparator
- Polypropylene woven sample bag (TPPB0) and in the triple bagged control bage0
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Verbatim
e0“moisture levels (from 09.02±0.11% to 12.07± 0.06%), weight loss (from 0.49±0.02% to 2.54±0.07%) and damage (from 0.99±0.02% to 3.96± 0.01%), corn stored in triple bagged bags with different proportions of biopesticide were significantly lower than those recorded in the Polypropylene woven sample bag (TPPB0) and in the triple bagged control bag during the storage period.”
Title
Yao Vanessa Gaël; Konan K. Constant; Niamketchi G. Leonce; et al. European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety 2020. doi:10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v11i430175
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Triple bags containing botanical leaves had significantly lower grain weight loss than polypropylene and plain triple-bag controls.
- Intervention effect Triple bags containing botanical leaves had significantly lower grain damage than polypropylene and plain triple-bag controls.
- Observation Maize quality remained stable over 18 months in triple bags containing Lippia and Hyptis leaves.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 5% mixed leaves, 2.5 kg of each species, in triple bags to preserve maize merchantability.