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Hot-water treatment for insect disinfestation and reduction of chilling injury of `Fuyu' persimmon

Michael Lay-Yee, Sarah Ball, Shelley K. Forbes and Allan B. Woolf

Postharvest Biology and Technology Vol: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 81-87.

1997

บทคัดย่อ

`Fuyu' persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) fruit were hot-water treated at temperatures ranging from 47 to 54°C, for durations from 2.5 to 120 min (depending on temperature), with air- and water-treated fruit (20°C for 120 or 60 min, respectively) as controls. Following treatment, fruit were stored at 0°C in air for 6.5 weeks then held at 20°C for 5 days and assessed for quality. Whereas a number of hot-water treatments caused damage in the form of skin or flesh browning, no damage was observed with certain treatments which showed potential as disinfestation treatments (47°C for 90 and 120 min, 50°C for 30 and 45 min, 52°C for 20 and 30 min, and 54°C for 20 min). These treatments also reduced the incidence and severity of chilling injury observed in fruit following cold storage, relative to that found in controls. Results suggest that hot-water treatment shows potential for both disinfestation and maintaining quality of persimmon fruit during cold storage.