Abstract
Strawberries are greatly appreciated for their flavor and health-promoting properties. However, current agricultural and postharvest handling practices may result in decreased fruit quality. The objective of this work was to determine the effect of conventional or reduced fungicide applications on the quality of 'Florida Radiance' strawberries exposed to supply chain conditions. Strawberries held under steady temperature had better sensory and physicochemical quality than fruit exposed to supply chain conditions, regardless of the disease control treatment. Strawberries from the reduced fungicide treatment were firmer, lost less moisture, had higher sugar and higher or similar bioactive contents than fruit from the conventional treatment. Sensory scores were better for reduced fungicide fruit held under steady temperature conditions than other treatments at the consumer level. Microbial load increased during the supply chain but results strongly suggest that washing the fruit significantly reduces the microbial load and residual fungicide levels (fludioxonil, cyprodinil, pyraclostrobin, and captan) on the fruit. Overall, the use of reduced fungicide applications to control strawberry disease constitutes a promising alternative to conventional practices. It will help reduce costs by reducing labor and the amount of fungicides used while maintaining overall strawberry quality. Moreover, avoiding abusive and fluctuating temperature conditions during the supply chain will extend shelf-life and reduce strawberry waste.
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Claims 12
Claim · model-written summary
Steady temperature maintained better sensory and physicochemical strawberry quality than supply chain conditions.
- Taxon
- Strawberries
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Fragaria ×ananassae0 - Treatment
- steady temperaturee0
- Outcome
- sensory and physicochemical qualitye0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- supply chain conditionse0
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Verbatim
e0“Strawberries held under steady temperature had better sensory and physicochemical quality than fruit exposed to supply chain conditions, regardless of the disease control treatment.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced fungicide treatment produced firmer fruit than conventional treatment.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassae0
- Treatment
- reduced fungicide treatmente0
- Outcome
- firmere0
- Direction
- firmere0
- Comparator
- conventional treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Strawberries from the reduced fungicide treatment were firmer, lost less moisture, had higher sugar and higher or similar bioactive contents than fruit from the conventional treatment.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced fungicide treatment resulted in less moisture loss than conventional treatment.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassae0
- Treatment
- reduced fungicide treatmente0
- Outcome
- moisturee0
- Direction
- lost lesse0
- Comparator
- conventional treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Strawberries from the reduced fungicide treatment were firmer, lost less moisture, had higher sugar and higher or similar bioactive contents than fruit from the conventional treatment.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced fungicide treatment yielded higher fruit sugar than conventional treatment.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassae0
- Treatment
- reduced fungicide treatmente0
- Outcome
- sugare0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- conventional treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Strawberries from the reduced fungicide treatment were firmer, lost less moisture, had higher sugar and higher or similar bioactive contents than fruit from the conventional treatment.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced fungicide treatment yielded higher or similar bioactive contents relative to conventional treatment.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassae0
- Treatment
- reduced fungicide treatmente0
- Outcome
- bioactive contentse0
- Direction
- higher or similare0
- Comparator
- conventional treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Strawberries from the reduced fungicide treatment were firmer, lost less moisture, had higher sugar and higher or similar bioactive contents than fruit from the conventional treatment.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced fungicide fruit held at steady temperature received better consumer sensory scores than other treatments.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Treatment
- reduced fungicide fruit held under steady temperature conditionse0
- Outcome
- Sensory scorese0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Sensory scores were better for reduced fungicide fruit held under steady temperature conditions than other treatments at the consumer level.”
t0“Strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit microbial load increased during the supply chain.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Outcome
- Microbial loade0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Setting
- supply chaine0
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Verbatim
e0“Microbial load increased during the supply chain”
t0“Strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Washing significantly reduced fruit microbial load.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Treatment
- washing the fruite0
- Outcome
- microbial loade0
- Direction
- reducese0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“washing the fruit significantly reduces the microbial load and residual fungicide levels (fludioxonil, cyprodinil, pyraclostrobin, and captan) on the fruit.”
t0“Strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Washing significantly reduced residual fungicide levels on fruit.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Treatment
- washing the fruite0
- Outcome
- residual fungicide levelse0
- Direction
- reducese0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“washing the fruit significantly reduces the microbial load and residual fungicide levels (fludioxonil, cyprodinil, pyraclostrobin, and captan) on the fruit.”
t0“Strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend reduced fungicide applications as an alternative for strawberry disease control.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Outcome
- reduced fungicide applications to control strawberry diseasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the use of reduced fungicide applications to control strawberry disease constitutes a promising alternative to conventional practices.”
t0“Strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors expect reduced fungicide applications to reduce labor and fungicide costs while maintaining strawberry quality.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Outcome
- reduce costse0
- Qualifier
- maintaining overall strawberry qualitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It will help reduce costs by reducing labor and the amount of fungicides used while maintaining overall strawberry quality.”
t0“Strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend avoiding fluctuating supply chain temperatures to extend shelf life and reduce strawberry waste.
- Taxon
- StrawberriesFragaria ×ananassat0
- Outcome
- avoiding abusive and fluctuating temperature conditions during the supply chaine0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“avoiding abusive and fluctuating temperature conditions during the supply chain will extend shelf-life and reduce strawberry waste.”
t0“Strawberries”
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