Enhancing postharvest quality of fresh-cut plums with chitosan-grape seed oil edible coatings

Edible coatings are traditionally used to improve food appearance and conservation due their environmentally friendly nature. In this study fresh cut (halved pitted) plum (var. Stanley) fruits were coated by chitosan grape-seed-oil (GsO) nanoemulsion. Physical, physico-chemical, microbiological sensorial properties examined 3 times during 9 d refrigeration storage. The control probes wasted safety quality after the 4 th d. preserved end of storage period. with coating showed smaller contamination but GsO higher values in parameters. samples parameters up 80% on