Abstract
Abstract Long-term storage tests with carrots, parsnips, rutabagas, and cabbage showed that at 98 to 100% relative humidity (RH), decay in these commodities was either less than or about the same as at 90 to 95% RH, while moisture loss was considerably less and the produce remained crisper, firmer, and of better color at the higher humidity. The optimum storage temperature for minimizing decay was 0 to 1°C. Cabbage stored in 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2 had less decay and remained greener than cabbage stored in air or in other modified atmospheres with up to 10% O 2 and 11% CO 2 . Limited tests with up to 1-1/2-ton samples of rutabagas and carrots confirmed the small-scale (1 bushel) tests and, for rutabagas, yielded information on temperature variations and air movement within bins.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
At 98 to 100% RH, decay of stored carrots, parsnips, rutabagas and cabbage was less than or similar to that at 90 to 95% RH.
- Taxon
- Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and Cabbage
Brassica napus subsp. rapifera
Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Daucus carota
Pastinaca sativat0 - Treatment
- 98 to 100% relative humidity (RH)e0
- Outcome
- decaye0
- Direction
- less than or about the samee0
- Comparator
- 90 to 95% RHe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“at 98 to 100% relative humidity (RH), decay in these commodities was either less than or about the same as at 90 to 95% RH”
t0“Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and Cabbage”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher humidity substantially reduced moisture loss.
- Taxon
- Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and CabbageBrassica napus subsp. rapiferaBrassica oleracea var. capitataDaucus carotaPastinaca sativat0
- Outcome
- moisture losse0
- Direction
- considerably lesse0
Not reportedTreatmentComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“moisture loss was considerably less”
t0“Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and Cabbage”
Claim · model-written summary
Produce remained crisper, firmer and better colored at higher humidity.
- Taxon
- Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and CabbageBrassica napus subsp. rapiferaBrassica oleracea var. capitataDaucus carotaPastinaca sativat0
- Treatment
- higher humiditye0
- Outcome
- crisper, firmer, and of better colore0
- Direction
- crispere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the produce remained crisper, firmer, and of better color at the higher humidity”
t0“Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and Cabbage”
Claim · model-written summary
The temperature minimizing decay was 0 to 1°C.
- Taxon
- Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and CabbageBrassica napus subsp. rapiferaBrassica oleracea var. capitataDaucus carotaPastinaca sativat0
- Outcome
- minimizing decaye0
- Value
- 0 to 1°Ce0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The optimum storage temperature for minimizing decay was 0 to 1°C”
t0“Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, and Cabbage”
Claim · model-written summary
Cabbage in 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2 had less decay than cabbage in air or other modified atmospheres.
- Taxon
- CabbageBrassica oleracea var. capitatae0
- Treatment
- 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2e0
- Outcome
- decaye0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Comparator
- air or in other modified atmospherese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cabbage stored in 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2 had less decay and remained greener than cabbage stored in air or in other modified atmospheres with up to 10% O 2 and 11% CO 2”
Claim · model-written summary
Cabbage in 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2 remained greener than cabbage in air or other modified atmospheres.
- Taxon
- CabbageBrassica oleracea var. capitatae0
- Treatment
- 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2e0
- Outcome
- remained greenere0
- Direction
- greenere0
- Comparator
- air or in other modified atmospherese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cabbage stored in 1% O 2 with 5% CO 2 had less decay and remained greener than cabbage stored in air or in other modified atmospheres with up to 10% O 2 and 11% CO 2”
Claim · model-written summary
Large rutabaga and carrot storage samples confirmed small scale tests.
- Taxon
- rutabagas and carrotsBrassica napus subsp. rapiferaDaucus carotae0
- Outcome
- confirmed the small-scale (1 bushel) testse0
- Comparator
- small-scale (1 bushel) testse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Limited tests with up to 1-1/2-ton samples of rutabagas and carrots confirmed the small-scale (1 bushel) tests”
Claim · model-written summary
Large rutabaga samples yielded information on bin temperature variation and air movement.
- Taxon
- rutabagasBrassica napus subsp. rapiferae0
- Outcome
- temperature variations and air movement within binse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for rutabagas, yielded information on temperature variations and air movement within bins”
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- positive
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