Storage behaviour of minimally processed pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)under modified atmosphere packaging conditions

Habibunnisa, Ms. and Revathy, Baskaran and Rajendra, Prasad and Krishnaprakash, M. S. (2001) Storage behaviour of minimally processed pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)under modified atmosphere packaging conditions. European Food Research and Technology, 212. pp. 165-169.

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Abstract

<p align="justify">Minimally processed vegetables in fresh,ready-to-cook form are gaining the confidence of both the trader and the consumer. This has led to a need to develop technology for increasing shelf life while maintaining the microbial, nutritional and sensory quality of minimally processed vegetables. This investigation was carried out on pumpkin in minimally processed form,packed in different polymeric film bags of varying permeabilities,creating an active equilibrium modified atmosphere within the package for the extention of storage life. It was observed that minimally processed pumpkin, which has a high respiratory rate at room temperature (155.7 mg CO2/kg/h) could be stored for a period of 25 days at 5B2 7C under modified atmosphere packaging conditions with a minimum physiological loss in weight of 0.06% and marginally low changes in biochemical constituents, such as vitamin C,total soluble solids, moisture, carotenoids and titrable acidity, enabling the retention of near-fresh quality. The microbial loads of mesophilic aerobes and coliforms, which were log 5.5 and log 4.3 were less than threshold level. There was no growth of yeasts and moulds or mesophilic spore formers at the end of the storage period.</p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Pumpkin Minimal processing Modified atmosphere packaging Shelf life
Subjects:	600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 06 Preservation and Storage 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 23 Vegetables
Divisions:	Fruit and Vegetable Technology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2005
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2016 10:41
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/200

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