Abstract
The effect of gum arabic (GA) coating was studied on apricot fruit at 20 ± 1°C for 8 days. GA coating substantially reduced weight loss, disease incidence, malondialdehyde concentration, and hydrogen peroxide compared to the control. GA coating resulted in significantly higher total phenols, ascorbic acid, and antioxidant activity in contrast to the control. GA coating also suppressed cellulase, pectin methylesterase, and polygalacturonase activity in contrast to the non-coated fruit. In addition, GA-coated apricot fruit had substantially higher catalase, peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase enzymes activities in contrast with the control. Similarly, GA coating inhibited soluble solids content increase and inhibited the reduction in titratable acidity in coated fruit. The fruit coated with GA coating also had significantly better sensory and overall eating quality compared to the control apricots. In conclusion, GA could be considered an appropriate edible coating for quality conservation of apricots. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: Apricot is a well renowned and nutrients rich fruit. However, apricot has comparatively short shelf life potential due to its susceptibility to rapid senescence and deterioration under ambient conditions. GA is an eco-friendly and biodegradable coating which is considered relatively cheap as compared with other coating types. In our present work, application of gum arabic [GA (10%)] edible coating maintained significantly higher quality of harvested apricot fruit as compared with the control. The outcomes of the present work are of global significance with respect to apricot industry. So, GA coating could be considered an appropriate edible coating for quality conservation of the harvested apricot fruit.
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Claims 19
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating reduced apricot fruit weight loss.
- Taxon
- apricot
Prunus armeniacat0 - Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- weight losse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating substantially reduced weight loss, disease incidence, malondialdehyde concentration, and hydrogen peroxide compared to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating reduced apricot fruit disease incidence.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- disease incidencee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating substantially reduced weight loss, disease incidence, malondialdehyde concentration, and hydrogen peroxide compared to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating reduced apricot fruit malondialdehyde concentration.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- malondialdehyde concentratione0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating substantially reduced weight loss, disease incidence, malondialdehyde concentration, and hydrogen peroxide compared to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating reduced apricot fruit hydrogen peroxide.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- hydrogen peroxidee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating substantially reduced weight loss, disease incidence, malondialdehyde concentration, and hydrogen peroxide compared to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating raised total phenols in apricot fruit.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- total phenolse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating resulted in significantly higher total phenols, ascorbic acid, and antioxidant activity in contrast to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating raised ascorbic acid in apricot fruit.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- ascorbic acide0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating resulted in significantly higher total phenols, ascorbic acid, and antioxidant activity in contrast to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating raised antioxidant activity in apricot fruit.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- antioxidant activitye0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating resulted in significantly higher total phenols, ascorbic acid, and antioxidant activity in contrast to the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating suppressed fruit cellulase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Gene
- cellulasee0
- Outcome
- cellulasee0
- Direction
- suppressede0
- Comparator
- non-coated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating also suppressed cellulase, pectin methylesterase, and polygalacturonase activity in contrast to the non-coated fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating suppressed fruit pectin methylesterase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Gene
- pectin methylesterasee0
- Outcome
- pectin methylesterasee0
- Direction
- suppressede0
- Comparator
- non-coated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating also suppressed cellulase, pectin methylesterase, and polygalacturonase activity in contrast to the non-coated fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating suppressed fruit polygalacturonase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Gene
- polygalacturonasee0
- Outcome
- polygalacturonase activitye0
- Direction
- suppressede0
- Comparator
- non-coated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating also suppressed cellulase, pectin methylesterase, and polygalacturonase activity in contrast to the non-coated fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA-coated apricot fruit had higher catalase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA-coatede0
- Gene
- catalasee0
- Outcome
- catalasee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA-coated apricot fruit had substantially higher catalase, peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase enzymes activities in contrast with the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA-coated apricot fruit had higher peroxidase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA-coatede0
- Gene
- peroxidasee0
- Outcome
- peroxidasee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA-coated apricot fruit had substantially higher catalase, peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase enzymes activities in contrast with the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA-coated apricot fruit had higher ascorbate peroxidase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA-coatede0
- Gene
- ascorbate peroxidasee0
- Outcome
- ascorbate peroxidasee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA-coated apricot fruit had substantially higher catalase, peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase enzymes activities in contrast with the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA-coated apricot fruit had higher superoxide dismutase activity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA-coatede0
- Gene
- superoxide dismutasee0
- Outcome
- superoxide dismutasee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA-coated apricot fruit had substantially higher catalase, peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase enzymes activities in contrast with the control.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating inhibited the increase in soluble solids content.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- soluble solids content increasee0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating inhibited soluble solids content increase and inhibited the reduction in titratable acidity in coated fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA coating inhibited the reduction in titratable acidity.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- reduction in titratable aciditye0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA coating inhibited soluble solids content increase and inhibited the reduction in titratable acidity in coated fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA-coated fruit had better sensory quality than control apricots.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- sensorye0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- control apricotse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“The fruit coated with GA coating also had significantly better sensory and overall eating quality compared to the control apricots.”
Claim · model-written summary
GA-coated fruit had better overall eating quality than control apricots.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Organ / stage
- fruitt0
- Treatment
- GA coatinge0
- Outcome
- overall eating qualitye0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- control apricotse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“The fruit coated with GA coating also had significantly better sensory and overall eating quality compared to the control apricots.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend GA coating for conservation of apricot fruit quality.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Treatment
- GAe0
- Outcome
- quality conservation of apricotse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apricot ( Prunus armeniaca L.) fruit”
e0“GA could be considered an appropriate edible coating for quality conservation of apricots.”
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