Abstract
SummaryMaintenance of quality in fresh-cut produce is an important issue for the rapidly expanding minimal processing sector. Treatment of ethylene generating and/or sensitive fresh-cut produce with the ethylene-binding inhibitor 1-methylcyclopropene may assist in quality maintenance over time. Intact (control) and sliced ‘Golden Delicious’ apple fruit at 20°C were treated either with 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) for 6 h at 0.1 to 10 μl l–1 or 1 μl l–1 for periods of 1 to 6 h. Fruit was then kept at either 20°C or 4°C. Exposure of intact or fresh-cut apple fruit to 1-MCP resulted in reduced respiration and ethylene production rates and delayed softening and colour changes. The degree of benefit generally increased with increasing 1-MCP treatment concentration and duration. Compared with untreated tissue, quality was better maintained at 4°C for apple slices to which 1-MCP was applied either before or after the fruit were processed.
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Claim · model-written summary
1-MCP reduced respiration of intact and fresh-cut apple fruit.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- 1-MCPe0
- Outcome
- respiratione0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Exposure of intact or fresh-cut apple fruit to 1-MCP resulted in reduced respiration”
Claim · model-written summary
1-MCP reduced ethylene production of intact and fresh-cut apple fruit.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- 1-MCPe0
- Outcome
- ethylene production ratese0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fresh-cut apple fruit to 1-MCP resulted in reduced respiration and ethylene production rates”
Claim · model-written summary
1-MCP delayed softening and colour changes of apple fruit.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- 1-MCPe0
- Outcome
- softening and colour changese0
- Direction
- delayede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“apple fruit to 1-MCP resulted in reduced respiration and ethylene production rates and delayed softening and colour changes”
Claim · model-written summary
Benefit increased with 1-MCP concentration.
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“The degree of benefit generally increased with increasing 1-MCP treatment concentration”
Claim · model-written summary
Benefit increased with 1-MCP treatment duration.
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“The degree of benefit generally increased with increasing 1-MCP treatment concentration and duration”
Claim · model-written summary
At 4°C, 1-MCP before processing better maintained apple slice quality than untreated tissue.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Organ / stage
- apple slicese0
- Treatment
- 1-MCPe0
- Outcome
- qualitye0
- Direction
- better maintainede0
- Comparator
- untreated tissuee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Compared with untreated tissue, quality was better maintained at 4°C for apple slices to which 1-MCP was applied either before or after the fruit were processed”
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