Fruit Quality and Antioxidant Activities of Yellow-Skinned Apple Cultivars Coated with Natural Sucrose Monoesters

Yellow-skinned ‘Tsugaru’, ‘Summer King’, and ‘Shinano Gold’ apples (Malus × domestica Borkh.) were coated with a mixture of edible sucrose monoesters fatty acid ethanol that had never been applied in those apple fruits, for up to 28 days after room temperature storage (DAS) evaluate their morphological characteristics, fruit qualities, antioxidant concentrations. The coating treatment significantly reduced respiration rates ‘Tsugaru’ King’ at both 14 DAS, DAS. found greater coverage fragments the esters than Gold’, exhibiting skin greasiness thickness. mostly maintained high firmness, peel color, vitamin C, total polyphenol concentrations, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging activity. recent developed material contributed improving shelf-life defense systems as novel post-harvest technology sustainable food security.