Postharvest technologies for improving the quality of fresh apricot : Enhancement of fruit quality and shelf life extension

ISBN-13: 9783330341630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 52 str.

Farid Moradinezhad; Mehdi Jahani

Opis

Nutritionally, apricot is a rich source of sugars, fibers, minerals, and vitamins like thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin. Thus, it has an important place in human nutrition and can be used as fresh, dried or processed fruit. In addition, fresh fruits have better taste and higher nutritional value. Hence, there is always high demand for fresh fruits in the market. However, fresh apricot fruits continue all metabolic processes and are susceptible to quality deterioration due to increase in enzymatic activities, transpiration and respiration lead to a shorter shelf life. Therefore, it is necessary to find out new strategies to minimize postharvest losses, improve the overall quality attributes and also extend the postharvest life of fresh apricot fruits.

O autorze

Dr. Farid Moradinezhad is a Lecturer with 22 years teaching and research experience in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Birjand, Iran. He completed his PhD on banana Postharvest Physiology at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 2006.