Effect of Plastic Cling Film on the Shelf Life of Carrot
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Raees-ul Haq, Department of Food Engineering and Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sangrur, India.
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Kamlesh Prasad, Department of Food Engineering and Technology, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sangrur, India.
Carrot is an important crop with a wide range of colored roots with high post harvest losses due to perishable nature of the roots. The perishable nature of the roots is enhanced by bruising, microbes and water loss. The continuous water loss affects the cell structure rendering it a flaccid that results in the production of the unacceptable root types. The shelf life increase with the use of simple low cost packaging cling films has been studied in the present work under the refrigeration conditions. The results yielded a positive response towards the use of cling films over the roots in order decrease the losses incurred due to escaping tendency of moisture.
Carrot, Package, Cling Film, Shelf Life, Weight Loss
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