Vol. 6, Issue 3 (2018)
Effect of pre-cooling in extending the shelf life of banana cv. Grand naine stored under different storage conditions
Author(s): Madhusudan Ravikumar, Chirag S Desai, Raghavendra HR and Naik Pooja
Abstract: Banana is one of the most important tropical fruit growing extensively in all over the tropical and sub-tropical regions. The perishable nature of banana became the major drawback in marketing of premium quality banana fruits due to lack of storage infrastructure. So proper post harvest pre-treatments plays utmost important in maintaining quality as well as in extending the shelf-life of banana fruits. With an aim to extend the post harvest life, the experiment was conducted at Department of Post-harvest Technology and Banana Pseudo stem Processing Unit, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396-450, Gujarat during May 2017 to July 2017. The experiment consist of five different pre-cooling methods viz., P0- Control, P1- Forced air cooling (13 0C), P2- Hydro-cooling (Spray at 13 0C), P3- Slush-cooling and P4- Hydro-cooling (Water dip) and three different storage conditions viz., S1- Ambient temperature, S2- Recommended cold storage temperature (13-14 0C) and S3- Zero energy cool chamber. The experiment was laid out in a completely randomized design with factorial concept with three repetitions and 15 treatment combinations. The experiment results indicated that fruits pre-cooled with Hydro-cooling (Spray at 13 0C) (P2) and stored in cold storage at 13 0C (S2) attained the maximum shelf life in banana fruits. The lower Physiological loss in weight, ripening and spoilage were recorded for extended period in these treatments.
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Madhusudan Ravikumar, Chirag S Desai, Raghavendra HR, Naik Pooja. Effect of pre-cooling in extending the shelf life of banana cv. Grand naine stored under different storage conditions. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(3):872-878.
