Ultrasound-Assisted Chitosan-Surfactant Nanostructure Assemblies: Towards Maintaining Postharvest Quality of Tomatoes

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2102-2111

  Mustafa, Maysoun A ^a   Ali, Asgar ^a   Manickam, Sivakumar ^b   Siddiqui, Yasmeen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Edible coatings; Micelle; Nanostructure; Respiration; Ripening

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; COATINGS; FOOD ADDITIVES; MICELLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; ULTRASONICS;

CHITOSAN PARTICLES; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS; EDIBLE COATING; POSTHARVEST QUALITY; RESPIRATION; RIPENING; SOLUBLE SOLID CONTENT; TITRATABLE ACIDITY;

FRUITS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84901648736     PISSN: 19355130     EISSN: 19355149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-013-1173-x     Document Type: Article

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