| Effect of different packing types on storage and quality of saidy dates |
| Paper ID : 1044-FCANVU |
| Authors |
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Hajar Mahmoud Saber *1, mohammed KM sayed2, Essam Mohammed Abdelzaher Radwan3, عبد الفتاح مصطفي الصالحي4 1كلية الزراعة جامعة الوادي الجديد 2كلية الزراعة جامعة الوادى الجديد 3Faculty of agri.New Valley universityFaculty of agri.New Valley university 4كلية الزراعة جامعة أسيوط |
| Abstract |
| : This study was conducted during two successive seasons 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 to study the effect of some packing types on the storability and quality of saidy dates (Phoenix dactylifera L.) fruits during the storage period. The post-harvest treatments were packed with perforated polyethylene layers and aluminum foil or non-perforated. The fruits were stored at cold condition 5±1°C with 85-90% RH. Samples of each treatment were randomly taken every two months for 8 months. The results showed that fruit weight loss %, fruit damage %, total soluble solids % and sugar contents were significantly increased with prolonging the storage period. On other hand, the advanced storage period induced a gradual decrease of fruit weight, flesh% and fruit Dimensions. All packing with non perforated polyethylene caused a decrease in fruit weight loss and fruit damage percent as well as fruit weight, flesh% and fruit Dimensions compared to use other packing types .Using non-perforated polyethylene result in the least fruit weight loss and fruit damage per compared to use other packing types. Using non-perforated polyethylene packing improved the fruit quality during the storage period compared to use perforated polyethylene or either perforated or non-perforated aluminum foil. It could be concluded that using non perf pol Packing with non-perforated polyethylene maintained fruit freshness without negative effects of fruit quality parameters and seems to be the proper and an ideal packing types to prolong cold storage of saidy dates without great reduction in fruit quality. |
| Keywords |
| polyethylene, aluminum foil, packing types, Date palm, Storage. |
| Status: Accepted |