Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin treatment is stated to prolong the shelf life of fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts.
- Taxon
- Chinese water chestnuts
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Eleocharis dulcise0 - Treatment
- melatonin treatmente7
- Outcome
- shelf life of fresh-cut CWCse6
- Direction
- prolonginge6
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Verbatim
e0“Fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts (CWCs) are prone to quality deterioration during storage”
e7“melatonin treatment may delay the surface discoloration of fresh-cut CWCs by inhibiting phenolic compound metabolism and improving antioxidant capacity”
e6“thereby effectively maintaining the quality and prolonging the shelf life of fresh-cut CWCs”
Title
Yuhan Xu; Jian Yu; Jinhui Chen; et al. Food Quality and Safety 2022. doi:10.1093/fqsafe/fyac002
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Melatonin treatment alleviated cut-surface discoloration of fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts.
- Intervention effect Melatonin treatment significantly slowed the increase in browning degree and yellowness (b∗).
- Intervention effect Melatonin treatment significantly slowed the decrease in lightness (L∗) of fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts.
- Intervention effect Melatonin treatment significantly delayed the loss of weight and total soluble solids of fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts.
- Intervention effect Melatonin-treated fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts had significantly lower total phenolics and soluble quinones.
- Intervention effect Melatonin-treated fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts had suppressed activities of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, polyphenol oxidase, and peroxidase.
- Intervention effect Melatonin treatment significantly decreased total flavonoid concentration compared with the control in fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts.
- Intervention effect Melatonin significantly inhibited the accumulation of H2O2 and malondialdehyde in fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced the activities of superoxide dismutase and catalase in fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts by promoting O2–• production.
- Mechanism Melatonin treatment may delay surface discoloration of fresh-cut Chinese water chestnuts by inhibiting phenolic compound metabolism and improving antioxidant capacity.