Effect of controlled atmosphere on prolong storage life and quality of lime
Panida Boonyaritthongchai, Pianjai Kakaew, Thanidchaya Puthmee and Sirichai Kanlayanarat
Abstracts, 10th International Controlled & Modified Atmosphere Research Conference, 4-7 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey. 80 pages.
2009
บทคัดย่อ
The effects of controlled atmosphere (5% O2 and 1%, 5% CO2) on the quality of lime was determined low level of O2 (5%) alone treatment showed prolonging storage life of lime to 8 weeks. Low concentration of O2 (5% O2) combination with high CO2 (1 % and 5% CO2) had storage life 7 and 4 weeks, respectively while under air condition at 10°C had storage life for 5 weeks. Exposure low O2 and high CO2 did not effect on tritratable acidity (TA) and soluble solid (SS) contents. Color L value tends to increase in association with turning to yellow of lime during storage by exposure to 5% O2 alone condition delayed L value increasing and Hue decreasing than other treatments. Vitamin C content of all treatments had no changed in 5 weeks during storage but after that vitamin C content had rapidly decreased in 5% O2 alone and 1% CO2 combination with 5% O2 treatment.