Claim · model-written summary
Tomatoes treated with CaCl2 concentrations and ventilated polythene bags kept quality for more than a month without much effect.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- CaCl2 concentrations and covered with ventilated polythene bagse2
- Outcome
- qualitye2
- Direction
- without much affectinge2
- Qualifier
- for more than a monthe2
- Setting
- laboratory conditionse0
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Verbatim
e0“quality of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum, Mill.) fruits under laboratory conditions”
e2“Tomatoes treated with CaCl2 concentrations and covered with ventilated polythene bags were found to be best suited to the presence for more than a month without much affecting quality”
Title
Effect of Post Harvest Treatments on Storage Behavior and Quality of Tomato Fruits
Tessema Genanew http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas9(1)13/5.pdf 2013
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect CaCl2 facilitated retention of tomato fruit firmness.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 delayed ripening rates of tomato fruits.
- Intervention effect Fruits treated with 8 % CaCl2 and packed in ventilated polythene showed minimum loss of physicochemical characteristics compared with the control.
- Recommendation Ethylene absorbents with controlled storage atmosphere may have commercial potential to prolong tomato fruit shelf life.