High activity at slaughter is known to cause changes to the muscle biochemistry in terms of Ž . muscle pH and adenosine triphosphate ATP content. This experiment looked at how the muscle activity may affect the flesh quality of fish. Electro-stimulation of a carcass immediately after death can be used as a model for high levels of muscle activity prior to death. This experiment Ž . showed that ...

The number of muscle fibres recruited to reach a given body weight in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) showed significant variation between two strains with different growth rates and life history characteristics. Patterns of fibre recruitment also varied between twoyear classes of the same strain grown under different production conditions. The maximum diameter of fast muscle fibres was around...

BACKGROUND In ancient times, plants were recognized for their medicinal properties. Later, the arrival of synthetic drugs pushed it to the backstage. However, from being merely used for food, plants are now been widely explored for their therapeutic value. The current study explores the potential of skin and flesh extracts from a hard-necked Rocambole variety of purple garlic in preventing card...

The method of preserving dragon fruit with smart packaging films (improved in terms water permeability and air permeability) to improve the microclimate is evaluated as a suitable for these condition facilities Vietnam gives best efficiency. In this study, red flesh was packaged antibacterial film (LLDPE-G) made based on linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) combined polyhexamethylene guanidi...

In this work, 19 newly introduced and some traditional apricot cultivars were evaluated by 20 phenological agronomical traits fruit quality attributes. The results showed a wide variation in data, tree vigour (TCSA), productivity [yield per tree, cumulative yield (CY) efficiency (YE)], attributes such as stone weight, flesh/stone ratio, dimensions, size, shape index, soluble solids content (SSC...

Flesh firmness is closely related to fruit ripeness and typically a reliable indicator of shelf-life potential so it could be considered crucial quality index for the determination pear quality. softening after cutting considerably affect consumer acceptance fresh-cut pears (Pyrus communis L.). Indeed, mechanical stress (cutting, peeling, etc.) lead ethylene production that results in hydrolysi...

Some physical properties and chemical compositions of two cultivars (Semsouri and Shahabadi) of cantaloupe studied during four different stages of maturity from fruit set to completely ripe. The physical properties investigated were the geometric mean diameter (GMD), specific gravity (SG), mean firmness (MF), rind, seed (%) and flesh (%). The chemical compositions were Brix, Titrable Acidity (T...