Claim · model-written summary
Perforated films were less effective, which the authors attribute to higher vapor exchange.
- Taxon
- Spinach
Spinacia oleraceae0 - Outcome
- less effectivee2
- Qualifier
- higher vapor exchangee2
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Verbatim
e0“Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is a highly perishable leafy vegetable”
e2“Perforated films moderately reduced losses but were less effective due to higher vapor exchange”
Title
Yoganandi YC; Gupta P; Seth N; et al. International Journal of Agriculture and Food Science 2025. doi:10.33545/2664844x.2025.v7.i9d.761
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation The unpackaged control spinach had the highest physiological loss in weight (PLW) of 65.60%.
- Observation The unpackaged control spinach showed shrinkage in length of 54.12%.
- Observation The unpackaged control spinach showed shrinkage in width of 64.94%.
- Observation The unpackaged control spinach had the lowest sensory scores.
- Intervention effect Perforated films moderately reduced spinach losses relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Non-perforated LDPE gave the lowest spinach PLW, 1.06%.
- Intervention effect Non-perforated LDPE gave a minimal reduction in leaf length of 11.94%.
- Intervention effect Non-perforated LDPE gave a minimal reduction in leaf width of 10.11%.
- Intervention effect Non-perforated LDPE gave superior spinach sensory acceptability.
- Observation Spinach colour values declined over storage time across all treatments.
- Intervention effect Packaging type had no significant effect on spinach colour values.
- Observation Significant differences in quality among spinach storage treatments were observed (p < 0.05).