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Modelling respiration of packaged fresh-cut 'Rocha' pear as affected by oxygen concentration and temperature

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JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING
Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages 74-79

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.06.043

Keywords

Film permeability; Minimal processing; Modified atmosphere packaging; Pyrus communis; Respiratory quotient

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  1. Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) [PTDC/AGR-ALI/66144/2006]
  2. PhD [SFRH/BD/22628/2005]
  3. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/AGR-ALI/66144/2006] Funding Source: FCT

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Respiration rates were measured in fresh-cut 'Rocha' pear (Pyrus communis L) stored at four temperatures (0, 5, 10 and 15 degrees C) and with oxygen partial pressures ranging from 0 to 18 kPa. Respiratory quotient and ethanol production were used to determine the fermentation threshold. The oxygen concentration effect on the respiration rate was accurately described using Michaelis-Menten kinetics, without noncompetitive inhibition by CO2, and the effect of temperature on the respiration rate was well modelled by exponential functions. The oxygen level at which respiration was half its maximum (apparent K-m,K-O2) was similar to or only slightly greater than the fermentation threshold. The narrow range of oxygen between K-m,K-O2 and the fermentation threshold, suggests that modified atmosphere packaging technology has a limited applicability toward extension of the shelf-life of fresh-cut 'Rocha' pear. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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