Abstract
Bananas were held at 18C in all possible combinations of 65%, 75%, or 95% relative humidity (RH) before and after gassing with ethylene. Peel color, fruit firmness, starch loss, compression injury to peel and pulp, and overall peel scarring were measured. Peels were greener and the fruit were slightly firmer when fruit were held in the higher humidity combinations, particularly when the humidity was high after gassing with ethylene. Starch loss was not different among humidity treatments. Overall peel scarring was about twice as severe with 65% RH compared to 95% RH during the ripening phase. Low humidity before ethylene gassing had little effect on overall scarring. There were some instances where humidity had a significant effect on compression injury; high humidity caused less injury, but the effect was inconsistent.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Higher humidity combinations produced greener banana peels, especially with high humidity after ethylene gassing.
- Taxon
- Bananat0
- Treatment
- higher humidity combinationse0
- Outcome
- Peelse0
- Direction
- greenere0
- Qualifier
- after gassing with ethylenee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Peels were greener and the fruit were slightly firmer when fruit were held in the higher humidity combinations, particularly when the humidity was high after gassing with ethylene”
t0“Banana Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher humidity combinations produced slightly firmer banana fruit, especially after ethylene gassing.
- Taxon
- Bananat0
- Treatment
- higher humidity combinationse0
- Outcome
- fruite0
- Direction
- firmere0
- Qualifier
- after gassing with ethylenee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Peels were greener and the fruit were slightly firmer when fruit were held in the higher humidity combinations, particularly when the humidity was high after gassing with ethylene”
t0“Banana Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Banana starch loss did not differ among humidity treatments.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Starch loss was not different among humidity treatments”
t0“Banana Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Overall peel scarring was about twice as severe at 65% RH versus 95% RH during ripening.
Verbatim
e0“Overall peel scarring was about twice as severe with 65% RH compared to 95% RH during the ripening phase”
t0“Banana Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Low humidity before ethylene gassing had little effect on overall banana peel scarring.
- Taxon
- Bananat0
- Treatment
- Low humidity before ethylene gassinge0
- Outcome
- overall scarringe0
- Direction
- little effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Low humidity before ethylene gassing had little effect on overall scarring”
t0“Banana Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
High humidity caused less banana compression injury in some instances, but the effect was inconsistent.
- Taxon
- Bananat0
- Treatment
- high humiditye0
- Outcome
- compression injurye0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Qualifier
- effect was inconsistente0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“There were some instances where humidity had a significant effect on compression injury; high humidity caused less injury, but the effect was inconsistent”
t0“Banana Fruit Quality”
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