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Preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Title Preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables.
 
Creator Srivastava, H. C.
Kapur, N. S.
Dalal, V. B.
 
Subject 23 Vegetables
24 Fruits
06 Preservation and Storage
 
Description Fresh fruits and vegetables are protective foods, much needed for nutritional
balance in human diet. India produces many varieties of these perishables,
considerable quantities of which go to waste and present numerous problems in
transporting them to distant consuming centres. There are instances where hill
fruits never reach plain markets; and even if they do, prices become exhorbitant
due to heavy spoilage during transportation. The heavy spoilage can be
attributed to improper handling, inadequate storage and transport facilities.
By controlling spoilage of these perishables, the food resources of our country
can be augmented and the fruits and vegetables can be made available at cheaper
rates to millions of our countrymen for improving their nutritional status. Most
of the fruits and vegetables are very cheap at the producing centres during season
and become scarce out of season.
If their storage life is increased, they could be made available at distant consuming
centres for a longer span of time. This can be achieved by various
treatments suitable for different perishables, thereby increasing their storage life,
reducing spoilage thus facilitating transportation and marketing. The research
work carried out at the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore,
for the last eleven years has resulted in the standardization of certain methods
of preservation to achieve the above objectives. An outline of some of the
methods has been presented earlierl. In this paper an attempt has been made
to discuss the use of various methods of preservation to reduce spoilage and tide
over glut.
 
Date 1961
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/4999/1/Proceedings_of_the_Symposium_on_food_needs_and_resources_Mysore_May_16_and_17_1961_p_152-159.pdf
Srivastava, H. C. and Kapur, N. S. and Dalal, V. B. (1961) Preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables. Proceedings of the Symposium on Food Needs and Resources. pp. 152-160.