Preserving quality, maintaining nutritional components, reducing storage losses, and alleviating chilling injury are the major challenges for the fresh produce industry. This book examines the shelf life, quality, physico-chemical and biochemical changes during the storage.

Contents PREFACE IX FOREWORD XIII EDITOR XV CONTRIBUTORS XVII DEDICATION XXI ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XXVII 1 Nitric Oxide Treatments 1 ZORA SINGH AND AHMAD SATTAR KHAN 2 Oxalic Acid Treatments 35 XIAOLIN ZHENG AND JEFFREY K. BRECHT 3 Calcium Treatments 51 SERGIO TONETTO de FREITAS AND RITA de CÁSSIA MIRELA RESENDE NASSUR 4 Polyamines Treatments 79 SUNIL PAREEK, SUNIL SHARMA, NARASHANS ALOK SAGAR, AND G.A. GONZÁLEZ-AGUILAR 5 Methyl Jasmonate Treatments 101 G.R. VELDERRAIN-RODRÍGUEZ, A.E. QUIRÓS-SAUCEDA, M. OVANDO-MARTÍNEZ, JOAQUÍN RODRIGO-GARCÍA, E. ALVAREZ-PARRILLA, GERARDO TORRES-GARCÍA, G.A. GONZÁLEZ-AGUILAR, AND SUNIL PAREEK 6 Salicylic Acid Treatments 119 M.G. GONI, A.E. QUIRÓS-SAUCEDA, G.R. VELDERRAIN-RODRÍGUEZ, M. OVANDO-MARTÍNEZ, S.I. ROURA, G.A. GONZÁLEZ-AGUILAR, AND SUNIL PAREEK 7 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) Treatments 149 VIJAY PAUL AND RAKESH PANDEY 8 Ozone Treatments 217 S. VIJAY RAKESH REDDY, D.V. SUDHAKAR RAO, AND R.R. SHARMA 9 Hot Water Treatments 241 ELAZAR FALLIK AND ZORAN ILIC¿ 10 Combination Hot Forced Air Treatments and Controlled Atmosphere Treatments: CATTS-Controlled Atmosphere Temperature Treatment System 259 LISA NEVEN AND SHELLEY JOHNSON 11 Irradiation Treatments 289 IOANNIS S. ARVANITOYANNIS AND PERSEFONI TSERKEZOU 12 Ultraviolet Light Treatments 341 MARIA TURTOI 13 Precooling and Refrigerated Storage 403 S. KANNAN, Y. GARIÉPY, AND G.S.V. RAGHAVAN 14 Modified Atmosphere for Storage, Transportation, and Packaging 433 TIMOTHY J. RENNIE AND PREDRAG S. SUNJKA 15 A Perspective on Fruit and Vegetable Packaging 481 MARIO sC? ETAR AND KATA GALIC¿ 16 Modeling of Modified Atmosphere Packaging Based on Conventional Polymeric Films and Perforated Films 531 YACHUAN ZHANG, QIANG LIU, AND XIN GENG 17 Individual Shrink Wrapping Technology 557 D.V. SUDHAKAR RAO 18 Maximizing the Levels of Dietary Flavonoids in Apples and Rosaceae 579 KEVIN SEATON AND MICHAEL J. CONSIDINE 19 Flavonoids in Pome Fruits: Health Benefits, Genetic Control, and Prospects to Breed an Even Healthier Apple 595 FUCHENG SHAN, MICHAEL J. CONSIDINE, CATHERINE P. BONDONNO, AND KEVIN SEATON 20 Antioxidant Potential and Their Changes during Postharvest Handling of Tropical Fruits 633 SOMPOCH NOICHINDA, KITTI BODHIPADMA, AND CHALERMCHAI WONGS-AREE 21 Applications of Sensory Analysis for Fresh and Processed Horticultural Products 663 HELIOFÁBIA VIRGÍNIA de VASCONCELOS FACUNDO AND ALEX SANDRA NASCIMENTO de SOUZA INDEX 679