Multi-Target Alternative Approaches to Promoting Fresh-Cut Carrots' Bioactive and Fresh-like Quality.

ABSTRACT: Fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, as near-fresh foods, are a quick and easy solution to a healthy and balanced diet. The rapid degradation of nutritional and sensory quality during the processing and storage of a product is critical and plant-type-dependent. The introduction of disruptive technological solutions in fresh-cut processing, which could maintain fresh-like quality with less environmental impact, is an emerging research concept. The application of abiotic stress treatments (heat shock and UV-C) induces metabolic responses and microbial effects in plant tissues, potentially slowing down several quality senescence pathways. The previously selected combined and single effects of heat shock (100 °C/45 s; in the whole root) and UV-C (2.5 kJ/m²) treatments and two packaging

SUBMITTER: Alegria C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9407139 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature