Active Cardboard Box with Smart Internal Lining Based on Encapsulated Essential Oils for Enhancing the Shelf Life of Fresh Mandarins.

ABSTRACT: Mandarins are usually sold in bulk and refrigerated in open cardboard boxes with a relatively short shelf-life (12-15 days) due to physiological and pathological disorders (rot, dehydration, internal breakdown, etc.). The influence of a controlled release of essential oils (EOs) from an active packaging (including β-cyclodextrin-EOs inclusion complex) was studied on the mandarin quality stability, comparing different sized cardboard trays and boxes, either non-active or active, at the pilot plant scale (experiment 1; commercialization simulation at room temperature after a previous simulation of short transportation/storage of 5 days at 8 °C). Then, the selected package was further validated at the industrial scale (experiment 2; cold storage at 8 °C up to 21 days). Among package types, th

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Gomez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7278779 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature