Non-refrigerated Storage of Tomatoes - Effect of HDPE Film Wrapping

Journal of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 438-440

  Kumar, Ashok ^a   Ghuman, B S ^a   Gupta, A K ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Brick and sand store; Evaporative cooling; HDPE Film wrapping; Non refrigerated Storage; Tomato; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005354882     PISSN: 00221155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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