Abstract:
Effect of temperature at 5, 8 and 10 OC and modified atmosphere using sucrose fatty acid ester at 0,0.5, 1 and 1.5 %, and plastic film wrapping of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) with athickness of 10, 15 and 20 Um and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) 13 ?m on storage quality of TupTim Jun Java apple was studied. It was found that storage at 5 OC could not only decreaserespiration rate, weight loss, color changes, total soluble solid, vitamin C and decay, but alsoprolong the storability to 20 days. In addition, coating with 0.5% sucrose fatty acid ester resulted in the highest firmness, best peel color and lowest respiration rate, including reduce pathogen growth. Thus, the storage life of the fruits could also keep for longer than 20 days. All kinds of plastic film and thickness could reduce weight loss, respiration rate, color changes and fruits disease. The LLDPE 15 ?m provided the best quality of fruits which had the highest overall acceptance score than those of wrapping with LLDPE 10 and 20 Um and PVC 13 ?m, as well as their storabilitymore than 25 days.