Abstract
Post-harvest loss negatively impacts food security, nutrition and economic stability of farmers, exporters, traders and consumers. Experiments were conducted to assess the effects of post-harvest techniques on the shelf life of Apple and Palmer mango cultivars under different storage conditions. Post-harvest losses of these fruit along the supply chain were also evaluated. A two-factors factorial experiment with six replications was used for each cultivar. Post-harvest techniques included dipping of fruit in hexanal solution (0.02% v/v), calcium chloride solution (2% w/v), smoke treatments and untreated fruit. The fruit were then stored at two different storage conditions namely: ambient temperature (28 ± 2°C) and cold storage (18 ± 2°C). Shelf life data was analyzed by using R-software. Mean separation was done by using Tukey Honestly Significant Difference at (p ≤ 0.05). Results showed that the major sites of post-harvest losses were at harvest, transport, wholesale and retail stages of supply chain. Furthermore, post-harvest treatments of fruit with hexanal and calcium chloride significantly increased shelf life and reduced disease incidences compared to untreated control and smoke-treated fruit. Cold storage significantly increased shelf life of mango fruit compared to ambient storage. Therefore, hexanal, calcium chloride and cold storage are recommended to extend fruit shelf life, maintain fruit firmness and to reduce disease incidences in mango fruit.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Major mango losses occurred at harvest, transport, wholesale and retail stages.
- Taxon
- Mango
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Mangifera indicat0 - Outcome
- post-harvest lossese0
- Setting
- harvest, transport, wholesale and retail stagese0
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Verbatim
e0“major sites of post-harvest losses were at harvest, transport, wholesale and retail stages of supply chain”
t0“Fresh Mango”
Claim · model-written summary
Hexanal treatment significantly increased mango shelf life over untreated and smoke-treated fruit.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- hexanale0
- Outcome
- shelf lifee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- untreated control and smoke-treated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“post-harvest treatments of fruit with hexanal and calcium chloride significantly increased shelf life and reduced disease incidences compared to untreated control and smoke-treated fruit”
t0“Fresh Mango”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride treatment significantly increased mango shelf life over untreated and smoke-treated fruit.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- shelf lifee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- untreated control and smoke-treated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“post-harvest treatments of fruit with hexanal and calcium chloride significantly increased shelf life and reduced disease incidences compared to untreated control and smoke-treated fruit”
t0“Fresh Mango”
Claim · model-written summary
Hexanal treatment significantly reduced mango disease incidence.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- hexanale0
- Outcome
- disease incidencese0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- untreated control and smoke-treated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“post-harvest treatments of fruit with hexanal and calcium chloride significantly increased shelf life and reduced disease incidences compared to untreated control and smoke-treated fruit”
t0“Fresh Mango”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride treatment significantly reduced mango disease incidence.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- disease incidencese0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- untreated control and smoke-treated fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“post-harvest treatments of fruit with hexanal and calcium chloride significantly increased shelf life and reduced disease incidences compared to untreated control and smoke-treated fruit”
t0“Fresh Mango”
Claim · model-written summary
Cold storage significantly increased mango shelf life versus ambient storage.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae0
- Treatment
- Cold storagee0
- Outcome
- shelf lifee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- ambient storagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cold storage significantly increased shelf life of mango fruit compared to ambient storage”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend hexanal, calcium chloride and cold storage to extend shelf life, maintain firmness and reduce disease.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae0
- Outcome
- extend fruit shelf life, maintain fruit firmness and to reduce disease incidencese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“hexanal, calcium chloride and cold storage are recommended to extend fruit shelf life, maintain fruit firmness and to reduce disease incidences in mango fruit”
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