Hot air treatment delays senescence and maintains quality of fresh-cut broccoli florets during refrigerated storage

LWT

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1076-1081

  Lemoine, M Laura ^a   Civello, Pedro ^a   Chaves, Alicia ^a   Martínez, Gustavo ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Broccoli; Fresh cut; Heat treatment; Postharvest; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; FOOD STORAGE; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

BROCCOLI; BROCCOLI FLORETS; FRESH-CUT; HOT AIR; HOT AIR TREATMENT; HUE VALUES; POST-HARVEST TREATMENTS; POSTHARVEST; REFRIGERATED STORAGES; SENESCENCE;

HEAT TREATMENT;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. ITALICA;

EID: 62449266357     PISSN: 00236438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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