Abstract
This study compared the postharvest quality of Hicaznar pomegranate fruit unpackaged and packaged with 5-kg or 12-kg bags of two different modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) materials (X5, X12, L5, and L12) during 6 months of storage at 6 °C. The fruits were also evaluated during a simulated shelf life period at 20 °C for 7 days after each cold storage period. The MAP bags significantly reduced the loss of titratable acidity and ascorbic acid content and retarded husk discoloration of the fruit during cold storage and the shelf life period. The incidence of fungal decay was lower in fruit packaged with MAP bags than unpackaged fruit. X5 and X12 MAP bags were more effective in reducing weight loss and husk scald than L5 and L12 MAP bags. X5 and X12 MAP bags maintained initial red aril color intensity and antioxidant properties of Hicaznar pomegranates throughout cold storage and the shelf life period. Unpackaged control fruit remained marketable for only 4 months at 6 °C plus shelf life period, while packaged fruit maintained visual quality for up to 6 months at 6 °C plus shelf life period.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
MAP bags significantly reduced loss of titratable acidity and ascorbic acid.
- Taxon
- pomegranate
Punica granatumt0 - Treatment
- MAP bagse0
- Outcome
- loss of titratable acidity and ascorbic acid contente0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The MAP bags significantly reduced the loss of titratable acidity and ascorbic acid content and retarded husk discoloration of the fruit during cold storage and the shelf life period”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
MAP bags retarded husk discoloration.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- MAP bagse0
- Outcome
- husk discoloratione0
- Direction
- retardede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The MAP bags significantly reduced the loss of titratable acidity and ascorbic acid content and retarded husk discoloration of the fruit during cold storage and the shelf life period”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
MAP bags lowered fungal decay incidence compared with unpackaged fruit.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- MAP bagse0
- Outcome
- incidence of fungal decaye0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- unpackaged fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The incidence of fungal decay was lower in fruit packaged with MAP bags than unpackaged fruit”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
X5 bags reduced weight loss more than L5 and L12.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- X5e0
- Outcome
- weight losse0
- Direction
- more effective in reducinge0
- Comparator
- L5 and L12 MAP bagse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“X5 and X12 MAP bags were more effective in reducing weight loss and husk scald than L5 and L12 MAP bags”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
X12 bags reduced weight loss more than L5 and L12.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- X12e0
- Outcome
- weight losse0
- Direction
- more effective in reducinge0
- Comparator
- L5 and L12 MAP bagse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“X5 and X12 MAP bags were more effective in reducing weight loss and husk scald than L5 and L12 MAP bags”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
X5 bags reduced husk scald more than L5 and L12.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- X5e0
- Outcome
- husk scalde0
- Direction
- more effective in reducinge0
- Comparator
- L5 and L12 MAP bagse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“X5 and X12 MAP bags were more effective in reducing weight loss and husk scald than L5 and L12 MAP bags”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
X12 bags reduced husk scald more than L5 and L12.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- X12e0
- Outcome
- husk scalde0
- Direction
- more effective in reducinge0
- Comparator
- L5 and L12 MAP bagse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“X5 and X12 MAP bags were more effective in reducing weight loss and husk scald than L5 and L12 MAP bags”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
X5 maintained red aril color and antioxidant properties throughout storage and shelf life.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- X5e0
- Outcome
- initial red aril color intensity and antioxidant propertiese0
- Direction
- maintainede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“X5 and X12 MAP bags maintained initial red aril color intensity and antioxidant properties of Hicaznar pomegranates throughout cold storage and the shelf life period”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
X12 maintained red aril color and antioxidant properties throughout storage and shelf life.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- X12e0
- Outcome
- initial red aril color intensity and antioxidant propertiese0
- Direction
- maintainede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“X5 and X12 MAP bags maintained initial red aril color intensity and antioxidant properties of Hicaznar pomegranates throughout cold storage and the shelf life period”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Packaged fruit maintained visual quality for up to six months compared with four for unpackaged fruit.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- packaged fruite0
- Outcome
- visual qualitye0
- Direction
- maintainede0
- Value
- up to 6 monthse0
- Qualifier
- only 4 monthse0
- Comparator
- Unpackaged control fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Unpackaged control fruit remained marketable for only 4 months at 6 °C plus shelf life period, while packaged fruit maintained visual quality for up to 6 months at 6 °C plus shelf life period”
t0“pomegranate”
The same questions in other papers
storage · quality: general · Punica granatum (pomegranate)Positive and negative results
10 papers in the same direction as this paper · 4 in the opposite direction
- positive
- negative
- no effect
11 papers more in this group
See all 15 papers →storage · disease · Punica granatum (pomegranate)Positive and negative results
15 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction
- positive
- negative
- positive
13 papers more in this group
See all 17 papers →storage · quality: sugar starch · Punica granatum (pomegranate)Positive and negative results
11 papers in the same direction as this paper · 5 in the opposite direction
- positive
- no effect
- negative
13 papers more in this group
See all 17 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.