Effect of packing materials on storage of tomato
Abstract
The process of fruit tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) sorting, grading and packing is wretched. Fruit firmness was tested on packing materials like wooden crates, corrugated card board boxes with separate cells and holes made in the boundary walls and nylon mesh bag for 12 days keeping green hard textured tomato at 200C room temperature. Fruits placed in corrugated card board box showed 69.00g fresh and 11.05 g dry weight. Open container and mesh bags showed accelerated fruit decay frequency (complex infection) due to faster fungal sporulation and mycelial spread. Fruit quality seem to be linked with air circulation and hardness of the material.
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