Abstract
This study focused on developing a composite coating comprising water-soluble chitosan (CTS) and curdlan (CUR). Cherry tomatoes served as the test material for assessing the preservative efficacy of these coatings. The incorporation of CUR markedly enhanced the coating's surface properties, refined its molecular structure, and improved its tensile strength and elongation at break. Additionally, the coating demonstrated enhanced permeability to water vapor, oxygen, and carbon dioxide and improved light transmission. The storage experiment, conducted at 25 ± 1 °C with a relative humidity of approximately 92% over 10 days, revealed that the CTS/CUR composite coating at a 1:1 ratio significantly outperformed the individual CTS or CUR coating and uncoated samples in maintaining the quality of postharvest cherry tomatoes. The 1:1 CTS/CUR composite coating demonstrated superior preservative effects. This study suggested that water-soluble chitosan/curdlan composite coatings have considerable potential for use in the preservation of postharvest fruits and vegetables.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Incorporating CUR improved the tensile strength and elongation at break of the coating.
- Taxon
- Cherry tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0 - Treatment
- incorporation of CURe1
- Outcome
- tensile strength and elongation at breake1
- Direction
- improvede1
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Verbatim
e0“Cherry tomatoes served as the test material for assessing the preservative efficacy of these coatings”
e1“The incorporation of CUR markedly enhanced the coating's surface properties, refined its molecular structure, and improved its tensile strength and elongation at break”
Claim · model-written summary
The coating showed enhanced permeability to water vapor, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
- Taxon
- Cherry tomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0
- Treatment
- the coatinge2
- Outcome
- permeability to water vapor, oxygen, and carbon dioxidee2
- Direction
- enhancede2
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Verbatim
e0“Cherry tomatoes served as the test material for assessing the preservative efficacy of these coatings”
e2“Additionally, the coating demonstrated enhanced permeability to water vapor, oxygen, and carbon dioxide and improved light transmission”
Claim · model-written summary
The coating improved light transmission.
- Taxon
- Cherry tomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0
- Treatment
- the coatinge2
- Outcome
- light transmissione2
- Direction
- improvede2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cherry tomatoes served as the test material for assessing the preservative efficacy of these coatings”
e2“Additionally, the coating demonstrated enhanced permeability to water vapor, oxygen, and carbon dioxide and improved light transmission”
Claim · model-written summary
The 1:1 CTS/CUR composite coating significantly outperformed the individual coatings and uncoated samples in maintaining postharvest cherry tomato quality.
- Taxon
- Cherry tomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0
- Treatment
- CTS/CUR composite coating at a 1:1 ratioe3
- Outcome
- quality of postharvest cherry tomatoese3
- Direction
- significantly outperformede3
- Comparator
- individual CTS or CUR coating and uncoated samplese3
- Setting
- at 25 ± 1 °C with a relative humidity of approximately 92% over 10 dayse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cherry tomatoes served as the test material for assessing the preservative efficacy of these coatings”
e3“the CTS/CUR composite coating at a 1:1 ratio significantly outperformed the individual CTS or CUR coating and uncoated samples in maintaining the quality of postharvest cherry tomatoes”
e4“conducted at 25 ± 1 °C with a relative humidity of approximately 92% over 10 days”
Claim · model-written summary
Water-soluble chitosan/curdlan composite coatings have considerable potential for preserving postharvest fruits and vegetables.
Verbatim
e5“water-soluble chitosan/curdlan composite coatings have considerable potential for use in the preservation of postharvest fruits and vegetables”
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