Handling: Sweet cherries for fresh shipment

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Combined heat and controlled atmosphere quarantine treatments for control of codling moth in sweet cherries.

Nonchemical quarantine treatments, using a combination of short-duration high temperatures under low oxygen, elevated carbon dioxide atmospheric environment were developed to control codling moth in sweet cherries, Prunus avium (L.). The two treatments developed are a chamber temperature of 45 degrees C for 45 min and a chamber temperature of 47 degreesC for 25 min under a 1% oxygen, 15% carbon...

Handling of Fresh Crabs and Crabmeat

doi:10.4027/hfcc.2009 by Don Kramer, Heidi Herter, and Al Stoner Introduction The king, Tanner, and Dungeness crab fisheries are important parts of the Alaska seafood industry, and the snow crab fishery is increasing in importance. Crab is marketed fresh in several forms—live, whole cooked, cooked sections, and cooked picked meat (Fig. 1). Crabs deteriorate very rapidly after death, as a conseq...

Handling of Quality Fresh Produce and Ornamentals

Antioxidant Properties of Sweet Cherries(Prunus avium L.) - Role of Phenolic Compounds

Sweet cherries (Prunus avium L.) contain various phenolic compounds which contribute to total antioxidant activity. Total polyphenols, tannins, flavonoids and anthocyanins, and antioxidant capacity in a fruits of a number of selected sweet cherry genotypes were investigated. Total polyphenols content ranged from 4.12 to 8.34 mg gallic acid equivantents/g dry fruit weight and total tannins conte...