Influence of different postharvest treatments on nutritional quality of grapefruits

LWT

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-134

  Biolatto, A ^a   Salitto, V ^a   Cantet, R J C ^b   Pensel, N A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Grapefruit; Nutritional quality; Postharvest treatments; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; CITRUS X PARADISI;

EID: 6944245081     PISSN: 00236438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2004.03.016     Document Type: Article

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