Abstract
Abstract Global agricultural exports are expected to increase in the future. Sea transportation facilitates the carrying of an incomparably large amount of cargo for a much lower cost than by air freight. However, sea transportation takes much longer and the produce quality is inferior to that transported by air. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop technologies to create a more suitable environment for sea transportation. For this reason, a method was devised in which all fruit and vegetables packaged for domestic distribution are wrapped from the outside of the package as additional packaging with a more versatile film, and an actual export demonstration using this method was conducted in this study. Namely, two sets of 28 different kinds of fruits and vegetables were prepared, one that was wrapped in additional packaging and the other with ordinary packaging. These sets were then exported from Japan's Shimizu Port to Singapore as mixed cargo. Following transportation, instrumental analysis and sensory evaluation were performed to compare the quality of the additionally packaged produce with that of the ordinarily packaged produce. This additional packaging greatly reduced the loss of fresh weight of Chinese cabbage, lettuce, cabbage and Japanese white radish. Moreover, the additional packaging reduced the drying of ‘Shine Muscat’ grape stems. However, some produce such as peaches deteriorated in quality due to slight changes in gas concentration. For many items, additional packaging can be a low‐cost option for maintaining quality when exporting fruits and vegetables packaged for routine domestic distribution.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Additional packaging reduced fresh weight loss of Chinese cabbage.
- Taxon
- Chinese cabbage
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensise0 - Treatment
- additional packaginge0
- Outcome
- loss of fresh weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This additional packaging greatly reduced the loss of fresh weight of Chinese cabbage, lettuce, cabbage and Japanese white radish.”
Claim · model-written summary
Additional packaging reduced fresh weight loss of lettuce.
- Taxon
- lettuce
Lactuca sativae0 - Treatment
- additional packaginge0
- Outcome
- loss of fresh weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This additional packaging greatly reduced the loss of fresh weight of Chinese cabbage, lettuce, cabbage and Japanese white radish.”
Claim · model-written summary
Additional packaging reduced fresh weight loss of cabbage.
- Taxon
- cabbage
Brassica oleracea var. capitatae0 - Treatment
- additional packaginge0
- Outcome
- loss of fresh weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This additional packaging greatly reduced the loss of fresh weight of Chinese cabbage, lettuce, cabbage and Japanese white radish.”
Claim · model-written summary
Additional packaging reduced fresh weight loss of Japanese white radish.
- Taxon
- Japanese white radishe0
- Treatment
- additional packaginge0
- Outcome
- loss of fresh weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“This additional packaging greatly reduced the loss of fresh weight of Chinese cabbage, lettuce, cabbage and Japanese white radish.”
Claim · model-written summary
Additional packaging reduced drying of Shine Muscat grape stems.
- Taxon
- grapee0
- Material
- Shine Muscate0
- Organ / stage
- stemse0
- Treatment
- additional packaginge0
- Outcome
- dryinge0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“the additional packaging reduced the drying of ‘Shine Muscat’ grape stems.”
Claim · model-written summary
Some peaches deteriorated in quality under additional packaging owing to gas concentration changes.
- Taxon
- peaches
Prunus persicae0 - Treatment
- additional packaginge1
- Outcome
- qualitye0
- Direction
- deterioratede0
- Qualifier
- due to slight changes in gas concentratione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“some produce such as peaches deteriorated in quality due to slight changes in gas concentration.”
e1“the additional packaging reduced the drying of ‘Shine Muscat’ grape stems.”
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