Influence of expanded polyethylene biopolymer packaging on shelf life of capsicum Singh Sudhir, Chaurasia S.N.S.*, Sharma Swati, Prasad Indivar, Khemariya Priti, Alam Tanweer1 ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Jakhini, Varanasi-221305, UP 1Indian Institute of Packaging, Patparganj, New Delhi-110092 *Corresponding author; Email: chaurasiaiivr@yahoo.com
Online published on 6 March, 2023. Abstract Capsicum is one of the most important vegetable crops of solanaceous family and grown across the country. Freshly harvested capsicum has very short shelf life (5–6 days) under ambient storage condition. The physicochemical characteristics and composition variations of capsicum has been assessed in two sizes (300g±10%) and (900g±10%) of 30μ flex fresh™ expanded polyethylene biopolymer pouches at 3°C, 10°C and 90–95% RH under modified atmospheric storage. Minimum increase (6.02% and 4.35%) in PLW, minimum decrease in chlorophyll (70.3% and 75.5%) and minimum losses (47.6% and 40.3%) of ascorbic acid were obtained after 28 DOS, respectively at 3°C. It was observed most acceptable consistency for both sizes of capsicum in pouches up to 21 DOS at 3°C. Top Keywords Capsicum, Polyethylene biopolymer pouches, Nutritional quality, Shelf life. Top |