Abstract
The effect of weather condition, packaging material and storage duration on some quality parameters of dried tomato slice was investigated. Dried tomato slice samples each weighing 20 g were packaged in small size pouches made from aluminium foil, polypropylene, high density polyethylene and waxed paper. The packaged samples were placed in airtight glass bottles at the relative humidity levels of 10%, 40% and 70% obtained by varying the concentration of sulphuric acid solution in the bottles. The samples were stored at temperatures of 10°C, 30°C and 45°C for the period of 90 and 180 days. Results showed that humidity, temperature and packaging material affected all the quality parameters at 1% level of significance. Moisture content of the samples increases with relative humidity but decreases with increase in temperature. Conversely, vitamin C and β-carotene decrease with increase in both relative humidity and temperature. Polypropylene retained more of the sample quality.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Humidity, temperature and packaging affected all measured dried tomato quality parameters significantly.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- humidity, temperature and packaging materiale0
- Outcome
- all the quality parameterse0
- Value
- 1% level of significancee0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
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Verbatim
e0“Results showed that humidity, temperature and packaging material affected all the quality parameters at 1% level of significance”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Moisture content increased with relative humidity.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- relative humiditye0
- Outcome
- Moisture contente0
- Direction
- increasese0
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Verbatim
e0“Moisture content of the samples increases with relative humidity”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Moisture content decreased as temperature increased.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- temperaturee0
- Outcome
- Moisture contente0
- Direction
- decreasese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Moisture content of the samples increases with relative humidity but decreases with increase in temperature”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Vitamin C decreased as relative humidity increased.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- relative humiditye0
- Outcome
- vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“vitamin C and β-carotene decrease with increase in both relative humidity and temperature”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Vitamin C decreased as temperature increased.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- temperaturee0
- Outcome
- vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“vitamin C and β-carotene decrease with increase in both relative humidity and temperature”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
β-carotene decreased as relative humidity increased.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- relative humiditye0
- Outcome
- β-carotenee0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“vitamin C and β-carotene decrease with increase in both relative humidity and temperature”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
β-carotene decreased as temperature increased.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- temperaturee0
- Outcome
- β-carotenee0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“vitamin C and β-carotene decrease with increase in both relative humidity and temperature”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Polypropylene packaging retained more dried tomato quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Polypropylenee0
- Outcome
- sample qualitye0
- Direction
- moree0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Polypropylene retained more of the sample quality”
t0“tomato”
The same questions in other papers
poly(propylene) · quality: general · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Positive and negative results
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- no effect
- positive
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