Claim · model-written summary
After seven days of storage, MeJA-treated chicory showed improved textural and nutritional quality.
- Taxon
- chicory
Cichorium intybuse0 - Treatment
- MeJA-treatede0
- Outcome
- textural and nutritional qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- After 7 days of storagee0
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Verbatim
e0“After 7 days of storage, MeJA-treated chicory and zeolite-treated kale exhibited improved textural and nutritional quality.”
Title
Anna Bonasia; Corrado Lazzizera; Antonio Elia; et al. Plants 2025. doi:10.3390/plants14060863
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect The foliar treatments did not significantly affect yield, averaging 1.0 kg m−2.
- Intervention effect MeJA improved greenness and texture in chicory.
- Intervention effect MeJA increased chicory carotenoids and flavonoids.
- Intervention effect MeJA enhanced antioxidant activity in chicory.
- Intervention effect Zeolite improved greenness and texture in kale.
- Intervention effect Zeolite increased kale carotenoids, anthocyanins and phenols.
- Intervention effect Zeolite improved antioxidant activity in kale.
- Intervention effect Zeolite reduced nitrate in kale.
- Intervention effect The treatments did not affect weight loss, averaging 2.2 g 100 g−1 f.w.
- Intervention effect After seven days of storage, zeolite-treated kale showed improved textural and nutritional quality.