Spices are any form of vegetable stuff used to give aroma, delicious taste and color to food.Ginger is herbaceous perennial plant, and has important applications both in food and medical industry. Food irradiation is very useful as it produces desire food preservative effects. Keeping in view the importance of ginger present study was designed to optimize dose of gamma radiation for ginger to reduce its post harvest losses without affecting its nutritional value.The present work also focused on the analysis of nutritional value of ginger after gamma radiation treatment.

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Miller)is the one of the most important and readily consumed fresh vegetable of the world. Tomato belongs to Solanaceae family also called Nightshade family. Other members of this family are eggplant, capsicum and potato etc. It is one of the most important growing crops of Pakistan. It contains a large amount of nutrients, which is obtained in cheapest price. But its shelf life is very less and the tomato rottening starts within one or two days after harvest.It is therefore very important to find out an effective means of sterilization for tomato. Gamma...

Pakistan is a big market where a huge amount of fruits and vegetables are grown. However, the marketing system is deficient in proper storage facilities and hence considerable post-harvest loss occurs. Spinach is a flimsy crop therefore it is difficult to store the spinach. Spinach is fit for human use and flowering plant of the family of Amaranthaceae.The effect of gamma radiation on moisture content of spinach indicated that moisture content decreased after the treatment. This might be due to retardation of senescence and inhibition of metabolic activities that moisture is decreased in the...