Abstract
A modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) system in pallets was developed and its effect on physico-chemical and sensory characteristics and shelf-life of tomato was evaluated. Tomatoes were stored at 6 °C in cardboard boxes arranged on pallets wrapped in micro-perforated low-density polyethylene (LDPE) bags. Effects of the storage time and packaging were evaluated after 0, 7, 14, and 21 days of storage. The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature. MAP delayed color evolution and reduced the firmness loss, biosynthesis of lycopene, and decay rate of tomato. At the end of storage, 100% of the unpackaged samples showed spots while only 42.9% of MAP samples had them. In addition, the percentage of tomatoes with cracks and stretch marks was reduced from 42.9% (unpackaged tomatoes) to 14.3% (MAP tomatoes).
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
The MAP system with pallets extended the shelf-life of tomato stored at refrigeration temperature.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- MAP system with palletse1
- Outcome
- shelf-lifee1
- Direction
- extendede1
- Qualifier
- refrigeration temperaturee1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
Claim · model-written summary
MAP delayed colour evolution of tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- MAPe2
- Outcome
- color evolutione2
- Direction
- delayede2
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
e2“MAP delayed color evolution and reduced the firmness loss, biosynthesis of lycopene, and decay rate of tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
MAP reduced firmness loss of tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- MAPe2
- Outcome
- firmness losse2
- Direction
- reducede2
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
e2“MAP delayed color evolution and reduced the firmness loss, biosynthesis of lycopene, and decay rate of tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
MAP reduced the biosynthesis of lycopene in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- MAPe2
- Compound
- lycopenee2
- Outcome
- biosynthesis of lycopenee2
- Direction
- reducede2
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
e2“MAP delayed color evolution and reduced the firmness loss, biosynthesis of lycopene, and decay rate of tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
MAP reduced the decay rate of tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- MAPe2
- Outcome
- decay ratee2
- Direction
- reducede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
e2“MAP delayed color evolution and reduced the firmness loss, biosynthesis of lycopene, and decay rate of tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
At the end of storage, spots occurred on 42.9% of MAP tomatoes and on 100% of unpackaged tomatoes.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- MAPe3
- Outcome
- spotse3
- Direction
- lowerinferrede3
- Value
- 42.9%e3
- Qualifier
- 100%e3
- Comparator
- unpackaged samplese3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
e3“100% of the unpackaged samples showed spots while only 42.9% of MAP samples had them”
Claim · model-written summary
The percentage of tomatoes with cracks and stretch marks was reduced from 42.9% in unpackaged tomatoes to 14.3% in MAP tomatoes.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- MAPe4
- Outcome
- cracks and stretch markse4
- Direction
- reducede4
- Value
- 14.3%e4
- Qualifier
- 42.9%e4
- Comparator
- unpackaged tomatoese4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The MAP system with pallets assessed, using a packaging atmosphere composition of 10% O2 - 10% CO2 and silica gel as an adsorbent, extended the shelf-life of the tomato stored at refrigeration temperature”
e4“the percentage of tomatoes with cracks and stretch marks was reduced from 42.9% (unpackaged tomatoes) to 14.3% (MAP tomatoes)”
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