Claim · model-written summary
The optimized coating contained beeswax at 5.5% w/v.
- Taxon
- Guava
Psidium guajavat0 - Outcome
- beeswaxe0
- Value
- 5.5% w/ve0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“Guava”
e0“The optimised coating emulsion was made up of gum Arabic (6.6% w/v), beeswax (5.5% w/v) and coconut oil (3.6% w/v) with Tween 80 (3% w/v) as surfactant.”
Title
Ting Ung Hua; Mohd Zahid Abidin; Mohd Syafiq Abdullah; et al. ASM Science Journal 2023. doi:10.32802/asmscj.2023.1520
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Method / resource The optimized coating contained gum Arabic at 6.6% w/v.
- Method / resource The optimized coating contained coconut oil at 3.6% w/v.
- Method / resource The optimized coating contained Tween 80 at 3% w/v.
- Observation The predicted mean weight loss under the optimized coating was 2.91%.
- Observation The predicted mean TSS under the optimized coating was 7.84oBrix.
- Observation The actual mean weight loss under the optimized coating was 3.38%.
- Observation The actual mean TSS under the optimized coating was 8.00oBrix.
- Method / resource Actual coating responses fell within their 95% prediction intervals.
- Intervention effect The optimized coating reduced guava weight loss.
- Intervention effect The optimized coating maximized guava TSS content.