The effect of a new bionanocomposite packaging film on postharvest quality of strawberry at modified atmosphere condition

Authors

Hassan Yousefnia Pasha¹ , Seyed Saeid Mohtasebi¹ , Reza Tabatabaeekoloor² , Behjat Tajeddin³ , Mahmoud Soltani Firouz¹ , Masoumeh Taherimehr⁴

1. Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technolo
2. Department of Biosystem Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Sari Agricultural Scienc
3. Department of Food Engineering & Post Harvest Technology, Agricultural Engineering Research Instit
4. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Bab

Conference / event

Start-up event of virtual agriculture and smart health weekend in Science and Technology Park of Tehran University, July 2020 (Virtual)

Poster summary

The highly perishable strawberry fruit has a short shelf life after harvesting limiting its consumption due to reduced freshness. A suitable packaging condition, proper storage, and carefully tuned atmosphere composition inside the package can preserve the quality and extend the shelf life of perishable fruits. It showed that PLA/montmorillonite Cloisite 20A/Triacetin preserved the quality of the packaged fruits compared to neat PLA and PLA/Triacetin films. Furthermore, the gas mixture of MAP-A was more suitable in comparison to MAP-B. We can conclude that using PLA nanocomposite film with MAP provides a more desirable condition for strawberries storaging at a low temperature.

Keywords

Strawberry, Cold storage, Modified atmosphere packaging, Quality parameters, Nanocomposite film

Research areas

Agriculture, Chemical Engineering, Nanoengineering

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Funding

1. Iran National Science Foundation (No. 99011944)
2. University of Tehran Science and Technology Park (No. 120041)

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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