The effect of post-harvest storage on the weight of Golden Delicious apples

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Salma Kassebi ◽  
Péter Korzenszky
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Storage Temperature ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Loss Of Weight ◽  
Ambient Storage ◽  
Golden Delicious ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Careful Management

Apples, like other fruits, are exposed to stress during their growth and development in the field, also during harvest and the postharvest environment (processing, storage, and transportation). The refrigeration system allows for bulk handling of food products from harvest to market, ensuring that food products are maintained in their freshness and integrity for an extended period through careful management of storage temperature and humidity. This study investigated the effects of storage on the weight loss of apples (Golden Delicious fruits harvested at maturity), under refrigerated conditions at a temperature of 5±0.5°C and relative humidity of 82% and under ambient storage at a temperature of 25 ±0.5 °C and relative humidity of 60 %, over 3 months. The findings revealed that the two groups of apples experienced weight reduction at different levels. Apples placed at cold storage presented a loss of weight between 3.31g and 4.49g; however, apples stored at ambient temperature showed a significant loss of weight between 21.9g and 31.76g.

scholarly journals Short-term Controlled Atmosphere Storage Improved Quality of Several Apple Cultivars

1993 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.R. Drake
Keyword(s):  
Acid Content ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Controlled Atmosphere ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Controlled Atmosphere Storage ◽  
Ambient Storage ◽  
Golden Delicious ◽  
Apple Cultivars ◽  
Atmosphere Storage

Controlled atmosphere (CA) storage for 30 or 60 days reduced quality losses for `Jonagold', `Golden Delicious', `Delicious', `Granny Smith', and `Fuji' apples (Malus domestica Borkh.). After 30 days `Jonagold' and `Golden Delicious' from CA were firmer, had higher acidity, and were less yellow (more green) than apples from regular atmosphere (RA) storage. `Delicious' and `Granny Smith' were firmer after 60 days of CA storage than fruit from RA. In addition, `Granny Smith' from CA had more acid and were greener than apples from RA. After 8 days of ambient storage, little loss in firmness and no loss in acid content occurred with `Jonagold' or `Golden Delicious' from CA compared to the significant loss in firmness and acid when stored in RA. After ambient storage for 8 days, `Jonagold', `Golden Delicious', and `Granny Smith' retained a freshly harvested apple color with more green and less yellow development when stored in CA rather than RA. In `Fuji', the treatments had no effect except for improved acid retention if stored in CA. A combination of 30 days CA followed by 30 days RA produced `Jonagold', `Golden Delicious', and `Delicious' that were superior in quality to apples from 60 days RA.

Carbamazepine-induced delayed-onset agranulocytosis in a case of bipolar disorder with Kikuchi’s disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. e241973
Author(s):  
Cebasta Irudayaraj ◽  
Raviteja Innamuri ◽  
Dheeraj Kattula
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Drug Effects ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Drug Induced ◽  
Kikuchi’S Disease ◽  
Delayed Onset ◽  
Loss Of Weight ◽  
Kikuchi's Disease

A 48-year-old man who is a known case of bipolar disorder was maintaining well on a combination of carbamazepine and quetiapine for 3 years until he developed fever, severe leucopenia and lymphadenopathy, along with significant loss of weight and appetite. A thorough investigation revealed Kikuchi’s disease as a likely histological diagnosis. Carbamazepine was discontinued and quetiapine was titrated for the management of psychiatric symptoms. The patient gradually made good recovery following discontinuation of carbamazepine and the diagnosis of drug-induced myelosuppression was retained. Clinicians need to be aware of the adverse effects of medications being used for long-term prophylaxis and other possible conditions that may change the course of drug effects.

scholarly journals Disability and ICF Core Sets in Mood Disorders

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
J.L. Ayuso-Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Consensus Conference ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Sets ◽  
Biopsychosocial Perspective ◽  
Icf Core Sets ◽  
Different Levels

The concept of disability has changed enormously, from a notion of handicap (ICIDM,1980) to the idea of person with disability (ICF,2001). The ICF considers three different levels of disability: body, person and environment, offering a possibility to address it in a universal, integrative and interactive perspective. The utility of the ICF in shifting the attention from a medical to a biopsychosocial perspective is therefore accepted. Having 1464 categories, it is hardly applicable to clinical practice and research. Mood disorders are characterized by a variety of psychiatric and somatic symptoms, associated with a significant loss of quality of life and functioning. Practical tools, such as Core Sets, that cover the spectrum of problems are needed. ICF Core Sets have been developed for depression and are currently being developed by our group for bipolar disorder. The ICF Comprehensive Core Sets for depression is the second larger among 12 Comprehensive ICF Core Sets for chronic disorders. This fact reflects the complex limitations in functioning and the numerous interactions with environmental factors. From the first version of the ICF Core Sets for depression as well as the preliminary studies for the bipolar disorder's core sets mental functions are mostly represented among the body functions domain. Few aspects important to mood disorders, as suicide, have been found to be relevant from both a systematic literature review and an expert survey in BD and in the consensus conference were the Core Sets for depression were establish but are not covered in the ICF.

scholarly journals Investigation of monthly variations in the efficiencies of photovoltaics due to sunrise and sunset times

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
Armstrong O. Njok ◽  
Julie C. Ogbulezie ◽  
Manoj Kumar Panjwani ◽  
Raja Masood Larik
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Peak Efficiency ◽  
Pv Module ◽  
Average Relative Humidity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Monthly Variations ◽  
Different Levels

<p>The effect of time of day and month on the efficient conversion of solar energy to electrical energy using a polycrystalline (PV) module in calabar was studied. A KT-908 precision digital hygrometer and thermometer, and a M890C+ digital multimeter were used in the process. Results obtained shows that photovoltaic produce different levels of peak efficiencies at different times of the day for different months due to the difference in sunrise and sunset times for the months. The results also indicated that photovoltaics will be more efficient in months with low average relative humidity couple with low panel temperature. A peak efficiency of 77% at 12:30 in the month of April was observed before dropping to 73% at 12:00 in the month of May, indicating that there might be further drop in efficiency as we proceed further into the year. Results also show that photovoltaics are more efficient before noon in the month of May than in April while the reverse will be observed in the afternoon. </p>

scholarly journals Nutritional Changes and Early Warning of Moldy Rice under Different Relative Humidity and Storage Temperature

Foods ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Jing Du ◽  
Yingxue Lin ◽  
Yuan Gao ◽  
Yanyan Tian ◽  
Jixiang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Storage Temperature ◽  
Starch Content ◽  
Protein Secondary Structure ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Total Starch

Processed unhusked rice is prone to mildew during storage. In this study, the storage conditions were simulated at temperatures of 20, 30, and 35 °C and a relative humidity of 40%, 60% and 80%, respectively. The water, fatty acid, and total starch content and the peak viscosity, mold colony number, protein secondary structure, and spatial structure of rice were monitored in order to propose the critical point of mildew during storage. In the process of rice from lively to moldy, the water content, fatty acid contents and the peak viscosity were increased. The total starch content decreased and then showed a slow increasing trend, while the microstructure of the powder particles changed from smooth and complete to loosen and hollow. With the increase in storage time, the vibration of the amide Ⅰ band of the rice samples decreased slightly, indicating that the total contents of β-fold, β-turn, α-helix, and random curl of the rice protein also changed. PCA (Principal Component Analysis) analysis showed that rice mildew index was closely related to temperature and humidity during storage. In our investigation, the best and most suitable temperature and relative humidity for rice storge is 20 °C and 40%, respectively. These results suggested that temperature and environmental humidity are vital factors affecting the physicochemical properties and nutrient changes, which provides a theoretical basis for the early warning of rice mildew during storage.

scholarly journals Prediction of growth kinetics of Pseudomonas spp. in meat products under isothermal and non-isothermal storage conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-202
Author(s):  
Fatih Tarlak
Keyword(s):  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Storage Temperature ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Chicken Meat ◽  
Lag Phase ◽  
Phase Duration ◽  
Pseudomonas Spp ◽  
Primary Model ◽  
One Step

The main objective of the present study was to develop and validate a new alternative modelling method to predict the shelf-life of food products under non-isothermal storage conditions. The bacterial growth data of the Pseudomonas spp. was extracted from published studies conducted for aerobically-stored fish, pork and chicken meat and described with two-step and one-step modelling approaches employing different primary models (the modified Gompertz, logistic, Baranyi and Huang models) under isothermal storage temperatures. Temperature dependent kinetic parameters (maximum specific growth rate ‘µmax’ and lag phase duration ‘λ’) were described as a function of storage temperature via the Ratkowsky model integrated with each primary model. The Huang model based on the one-step modelling approach yielded the best goodness of fit results (RMSE = 0.451 and adjusted-R2 = 0.942) for all food products at isothermal storage conditions, therefore, was also used to check it’s the prediction capability under non-isothermal storage conditions. The differential form of the Huang model provided satisfactorily statistical indexes (1.075 > Bf > 1.014 and 1.080 > Af > 1.047) indicating reliably being able to use to describe the growth behaviour of Pseudomonas spp. in fish, pork and chicken meat subjected to non-isothermal storage conditions.

STUDIES OF THE AGING OF CONIDIA OF MONILINIA FRUCTICOLA (WINT.) HONEY: I.GERMINATION RATES AND LONGEVITY

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 635-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Z. Naqvi ◽  
H. M. Good
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Storage Temperature ◽  
Potato Dextrose Agar ◽  
Monilinia Fructicola ◽  
High Humidity ◽  
Percentage Germination ◽  
Low Humidity ◽  
Nutrient Solutions

Conidia of Monilinia fructicola (Wint.) Honey were stored 1–10 months at temperatures of 5°, 25°, and 35 °C. and at constant relative humidities approximating 0, 15, 45, 75, and 90%. The germination of these spores was tested on potato dextrose agar containing 6% glucose, and curves of the percentage germination against time are given for representative samples.A pronounced delay in germination developed under all conditions of storage. The rate at which this delay developed was virtually independent of the storage temperature. All spore samples gave 100% germination after 3 months but only those at 5 °C. gave; any germination after 10 months. Storage in a relative humidity of 75% gave the best preservation of spore vigor, there being evidence in other conditions of either high humidity or low humidity injury. Of the nutrient solutions tested, glucose was the only one which gave substantially better germination than water, the effect being most marked on spores stored for some months at high humidity. With glucose, such spores sometimes germinated faster than those stored at intermediate humidities.

Methodology for the accelerated determination of the shelf life of wheat and rye grain

2021 ◽  
pp. 768-774
Author(s):  
K.B. Gurieva ◽  
S.L. Beletskiy ◽  
N.A. Khaba
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Storage Temperature ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Acid Number

An overview of methods for determining the shelf life of food products is given. An accelerated method, which includes storing grain at a temperature of 20–40 °C, regularly determining the acid number of fats, while using samples from at least three batches of grain of the same crop, has been developed. Based on the obtained results, the estimated shelf life at any storage temperature is determined by calculation using the “Reserve-forecast” program, taking into account that the maximum permissible value of the acid number of fats is: 25 mg KOH/g of fat — for wheat, 23 mg KOH/g fat — for rye. The proposed methodology makes it possible to shorten the duration and reduce the complexity of determining the grain shelf life.

California Almond Shelf Life: Changes in Moisture Content and Textural Quality During Storage

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Wu ◽  
Xiangyang Lin ◽  
Shengnan Lin ◽  
Paul Chen ◽  
Guangwei Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Storage Temperature ◽  
Initial Moisture Content ◽  
Textural Properties ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Lower Temperature ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Over Time

Abstract. The effects of packaging and storage conditions on the moisture content and instrumental and sensory textural properties of raw and salty light roasted (SLR) California almonds were studied under different storage conditions. The controlled combinations included low, medium, and high temperatures and low and high relative humidity (RH). Almond samples were packaged in cartons or polyethylene (PE) bags with and without vacuum. Both absorption and desorption of moisture by almonds were observed during storage and were dependent on the packaging and storage conditions. In general, gradual changes were observed for samples with PE and vacuum PE packaging in most of the storage conditions, while the samples packed in cartons showed more dramatic changes because these unprotected samples were more vulnerable to seasonal changes in humidity. The SLR almonds showed consistent moisture gains, while the raw almonds tended to lose moisture content in most of the storage conditions. This may be attributed to the low initial moisture content of the SLR samples. All raw samples packed in cartons became softer over time. The softening tended to be enhanced by high storage humidity and temperature. The raw almonds packaged in PE bags were firmer than those packed in cartons but also became softer over time. The firmness of the SLR samples was generally lower than that of raw samples, probably because roasting reduced the density and mechanical strength of the kernels. The firmness of PE packaged SLR samples increased in uncontrolled storage conditions and in higher storage temperature and humidity conditions but decreased slightly in lower temperature and humidity conditions. Vacuum packaging did not affect the firmness much. Using PE packaging and maintaining the RH below 50% and the temperature below 25°C are effective in stabilizing both raw and processed almonds. Keywords: Almond, Firmness, Nonpareil, Packaging, Relative humidity, Sensory, Storage, Temperature, Texture.

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