Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest evaporative cooling after aloe vera application to extend sweet pepper quality and shelf life.
- Taxon
- sweet pepper
Capsicum annuume0 - Treatment
- Aloe verae0
- Outcome
- postharvest quality and shelf lifee0
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Verbatim
e0“The results suggest that the postharvest quality and shelf life of sweet pepper can be extended by storing the sweet pepper fruits in energy efficient EC storage after the application of Sanitizers viz. Sodium hypochlorite and Aloe vera.”
Title
Santosh Kalauni; Kalyani Mishra Tripathi; Arjun Kumar Shrestha; et al. Nepalese Horticulture/Nepalese horticulture 2020. doi:10.3126/nh.v14i1.30601
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Evaporative cooling reduced physiological weight loss versus ambient storage to 13.19% from 21.61%.
- Intervention effect Evaporative cooling had the lowest spoilage percentage, 41.1%.
- Intervention effect Evaporative cooling gave the longest shelf life, 13.8 days.
- Intervention effect Evaporative cooling gave the highest TSS, 3.16°Brix.
- Intervention effect Evaporative cooling gave the highest vitamin C, 53.7 mg/100g.
- Intervention effect Sodium hypochlorite produced the lowest PLW, 14.69%.
- Intervention effect Sodium hypochlorite produced the lowest Spoilage percentage, 37.5%.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera solution produced the highest TSS, 3.63°Brix.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera solution produced the highest Vitamin C, 52.8 mg/100 g.
- Intervention effect Aloe vera solution produced the longest Shelf life, 13.33 days.
- Intervention effect Evaporative cooling with sodium hypochlorite gave the lowest day 9 physiological weight loss, 11.05%.
- Recommendation The authors suggest evaporative cooling after sodium hypochlorite application to extend sweet pepper quality and shelf life.