Peeling has no effect on respiration and ethylene production and only minimal effect on quality of fresh white asparagus spears

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 224-227

  Siomos, Anastasios S ^a   Gerasopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Tsouvaltzis, Pavlos ^a   Koukounaras, Athanasios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Color; Fresh cut; Light processing; Phenolics; Toughness

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGUS;

EID: 52949153254     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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