Evaluation of vacuum containers for consumer storage of fruits and vegetables

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-60

  Knee, Michael ^a   Aggarwal, Deepak ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sect Basic Eng Coll Agric E   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Color; Consumer; Fruit; Oxygen; Vacuum; Vegetable

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034066480     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5214(00)00075-2     Document Type: Article

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