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Food Sciences: Auto Gas Permeability Testing in Fruit and Vegetable Preservation - Abstract: This article briefs on the methods and mechanisms of preservation and storage for fruits and vegetables, and presents a detail introduction about how to obtain the accurate permeability data of preservative film under lower temperature storage environment.

People often focus their attentions on the guarantee period when buying food. Guarantee period is a term used for the safety of food. Food within this period can be eaten safely. However, with the improvement of living standard, people began to pay close attention to the freshness of food. Therefore, the concept of food preservation came into being. Food preservation, which has a higher requirement than quality guarantee, refers to that on the basis of safety insurance, the nutrition, color, texture and flavor can also be guaranteed.

Summary: Plastic wrap is one of the commonly used methods in fruits and vegetable preservation. And it is always used combining with low temperature storage. Therefore, obtain the permeability data of plastic wrap under low temperature is very important to the research of preservative mechanism and effect.

Author: Labthink Instruments Co.,Ltd.

Keywords: preservation of fruit and vegetable, low temperature, permeability, data fitting