110 In fully cooked poultry items, the presence of a pink or undercooked appearance is a major concern. This problem, while not a food safety issue, does present a quality issue as well as an economic concern to the processor. It is agreed that this problem occurs in a wide variety of poultry products ranging from restructured turkey rolls, to chopped and formed nuggets, to whole muscle breast ...

Abstract A modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) system in pallets was developed for ‘Padrón’ peppers as a way to extend their shelf-life while maintaining good fruit quality. Peppers were stored at 6 °C cardboard boxes arranged on wrapped micro-perforated low-density polyethylene (LDPE) bags. Physico-chemical (moisture, firmness, color, chlorophylls, carotenoids, ascorbic acid, and total phenoli...

The use of suitable sanitizers can increase the quality of fresh-cut produce and reduce the risk of foodborne illnesses. The objective of this study was to compare the washing effects of 100 mg/L sodium hypochlorite (SH) and 500 mg/L acidified sodium chlorite (ASC) on the prevention of enzymatic browning and the growth of microbial populations, including aerobic plate counts, E. coli, and colif...

Nicotine (NIC) is an oxygenic alkaloid compound exists in two forms R and S, and consists of a pyridine ring, substituted at the 3-position with an N-methyl-pyrrolidine ring. Nicotine is extracted mostly from the Nicotiana tabacum plant, and although it was made in the roots and accumulates in smaller amounts in leaves of edible plants of the nightshade family called “Solanaceae’’ such as tomat...

Tobacco glycoprotein (TGP)' is a brown, iron-containing substance of mol wt ca. 18,000 isolated from saline extracts of flue cured tobacco leaves by ammonium sulfate fractionation, chromatography on Sephadex G-25, and continuous flow, preparative electrophoresis on alkaline polyacrylamide gel. 12 of 31 volunteers (6/15 smokers and 6/16 nonsmokers) exhibited immediate cutaneous hypersensitivity ...

The European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is a quarantine pest for several fresh commodities, including corn-on-the-cob, bell peppers, and green beans. Methyl bromide fumigation is the usual phytosanitary treatment, but the fumigant is under increasing regulation as a stratospheric ozone-depleting substance. Ionizing radiation is a relatively new commercial ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation directly regulates a multitude of herbivore life processes, in addition to indirectly affecting insect success via changes in plant chemistry and morphogenesis. Here we looked at plant and insect (aphid and whitefly) exposure to supplemental UV-A radiation in the glasshouse environment and investigated effects on insect population growth. Glasshouse grown peppers and ...

The aim of this paper is to present multiobjective evolutionary optimizer (MEO) based highly secured and strongly robust image watermarking technique using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). Many researchers have failed to achieve optimization of perceptual quality and robustness with high capacity watermark embedding. Here, we achieved optimized peak signa...

In this study, the impact of convective solar drying on physiochemical characteristics hot peppers harvested in Algeria was investigated. The freshly underwent until they reached a desired stable weight. Various parameters including moisture content, water activity (Aw), pH, crude protein, fat, total sugars, and polyphenol content were measured. process, using an optimal method, took approximat...