Abstract
Cucumbers are highly perishable and suffer from moisture loss, shriveling, yellowing, peel damage, and decay. Plastic packaging helps to preserve cucumber quality, but harms the environment. We examined the use of compostable modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) with different perforation rates as a possible replacement for conventional plastic packaging materials. The results indicate that all of the tested types of packaging reduced cucumber weight loss and shriveling. However, compostable MAP with micro-perforations that created a modified atmosphere of between 16–18% O2 and 3–5% CO2 most effectively preserved cucumber quality, as demonstrated by reduced peel pitting, the reduced appearance of warts and the inhibition of yellowing and decay development. Overall, micro-perforated compostable packaging extended the storage life of cucumbers under both extended shelf conditions and simulated farm-to-fork supply-chain conditions and thus may serve as a replacement for the plastic packaging currently used to preserve the postharvest quality of cucumbers.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Every tested packaging type reduced cucumber weight loss and shriveling.
- Taxon
- Cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- all of the tested types of packaginge0
- Outcome
- cucumber weight loss and shrivelinge0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all of the tested types of packaging reduced cucumber weight loss and shriveling.”
t0“Cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Microperforated compostable MAP most effectively reduced peel pitting, warts, yellowing and decay.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Treatment
- compostable MAP with micro-perforationse0
- Outcome
- peel pitting, the reduced appearance of warts and the inhibition of yellowing and decay developmente0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- between 16–18% O2 and 3–5% CO2e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“compostable MAP with micro-perforations that created a modified atmosphere of between 16–18% O2 and 3–5% CO2 most effectively preserved cucumber quality, as demonstrated by reduced peel pitting, the reduced appearance of warts and the inhibition of yellowing and decay development.”
Claim · model-written summary
Microperforated compostable packaging extended cucumber storage life under shelf and simulated supply-chain conditions.
- Taxon
- cucumbersCucumis sativuse0
- Treatment
- micro-perforated compostable packaginge0
- Outcome
- storage lifee0
- Direction
- extendede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“micro-perforated compostable packaging extended the storage life of cucumbers under both extended shelf conditions and simulated farm-to-fork supply-chain conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest microperforated compostable packaging could replace plastic packaging for cucumbers.
- Taxon
- cucumbersCucumis sativuse0
- Outcome
- replacement for the plastic packaginge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“may serve as a replacement for the plastic packaging currently used to preserve the postharvest quality of cucumbers.”
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