Prestorage heat treatment to maintain nutritive and functional properties during postharvest cold storage of pomegranate

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 8495-8500

  Mirdehghan, Seyed Hossein ^a,b   Rahemi, Majid ^c   Serrano, María ^a   Guillén, Fabián ^a   Martínez Romero, Domingo ^a   Valero, Daniel ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b VALI E ASR UNIVERSITY OF RAFSANJAN   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Organic acids; Phenolics; Sugars; Total antioxidant activity

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; COLD; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEAT; METABOLISM; POMEGRANATE;

ANTHOCYANINS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; COLD; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEAT; PUNICACEAE;

LYTHRACEAE;

EID: 33751015454     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0615146     Document Type: Article

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