Abstract
Tomatoes are the most commercialized vegetable due their high nutritional content and health-promoting properties. However, tomatoes have a short shelf life; edible coatings have evolved as an effective approach to enhance its shelf life. Edible coatings are thin layers applied onto the surface of fruits and vegetables to improve their physiochemical properties. Different natural extract such as neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gel and distilled water along with control were used as edible coating on shelf life and quality of tomatoes under room temperature. Data was collected on many traits i.e., tomato weight loss, fruit pH, fruit color, total soluble salts (TSS), firmness and total phenolics contents. The treated tomatoes showed significantly minimum weight loss, good appearance, color, firmness and high total phenolics contents. So, these natural and environmental friendly edible coating could be considered a potential postharvest treatment to delay ripening and to conserve the quality of harvested tomatoes. Data was analyzed using LSD test at 5% probability level.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Edible coatings of natural extracts gave significantly minimum weight loss in tomatoes compared with control.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gele1
- Outcome
- weight losse2
- Direction
- minimume2
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- room temperaturee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Different natural extract such as neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gel and distilled water along with control were used as edible coating on shelf life and quality of tomatoes under room temperature”
e2“The treated tomatoes showed significantly minimum weight loss, good appearance, color, firmness and high total phenolics contents”
Claim · model-written summary
Edible coatings gave tomatoes good appearance, color and firmness compared with control.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gele1
- Outcome
- good appearance, color, firmnesse2
- Direction
- goode2
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- room temperaturee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Different natural extract such as neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gel and distilled water along with control were used as edible coating on shelf life and quality of tomatoes under room temperature”
e2“The treated tomatoes showed significantly minimum weight loss, good appearance, color, firmness and high total phenolics contents”
Claim · model-written summary
Edible coatings gave tomatoes high total phenolics contents compared with control.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gele1
- Outcome
- total phenolics contentse2
- Direction
- highe2
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- room temperaturee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Different natural extract such as neem leaf extract, lemongrass leaf extract, ginger extract, garlic extract, aloevera gel and distilled water along with control were used as edible coating on shelf life and quality of tomatoes under room temperature”
e2“The treated tomatoes showed significantly minimum weight loss, good appearance, color, firmness and high total phenolics contents”
Claim · model-written summary
Natural edible coatings could be considered a potential postharvest treatment to delay ripening of tomatoes.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume3
- Outcome
- delay ripeninge3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“So, these natural and environmental friendly edible coating could be considered a potential postharvest treatment to delay ripening and to conserve the quality of harvested tomatoes”
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