Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables

The demand of fruits and vegetables across the world had increased throughout the years which urge the need to have better and proper way to increase produce safety, quality and postharvest life. Traditionally pesticides or other chemicals had been used to encounter microbes related to postharvest d...

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Main Authors: Mohd Aziz, Khawarizmi, Ding, Phebe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66221/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66221/1/Ozone%20application%20in%20fresh%20fruits%20and%20vegetables.pdf
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description The demand of fruits and vegetables across the world had increased throughout the years which urge the need to have better and proper way to increase produce safety, quality and postharvest life. Traditionally pesticides or other chemicals had been used to encounter microbes related to postharvest diseases. Over time, consumers are concern towards health effect of consuming those produce treated with chemicals. Ozone is one of the approach that provide both of the needs to deal with pathogenic microbes and also give no harmful residue throughout the process. Several reports had proven that ozone can almost kill or inhibit all pathogenic microbes on treated commodity which promote higher quality and postharvest life during storage. This review focus and summarise the use of ozone in the form of aqueous and gaseous towards fresh produces, its benefits and also the precaution during ozone application.
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spelling upm-662212019-02-12T06:49:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66221/ Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables Mohd Aziz, Khawarizmi Ding, Phebe The demand of fruits and vegetables across the world had increased throughout the years which urge the need to have better and proper way to increase produce safety, quality and postharvest life. Traditionally pesticides or other chemicals had been used to encounter microbes related to postharvest diseases. Over time, consumers are concern towards health effect of consuming those produce treated with chemicals. Ozone is one of the approach that provide both of the needs to deal with pathogenic microbes and also give no harmful residue throughout the process. Several reports had proven that ozone can almost kill or inhibit all pathogenic microbes on treated commodity which promote higher quality and postharvest life during storage. This review focus and summarise the use of ozone in the form of aqueous and gaseous towards fresh produces, its benefits and also the precaution during ozone application. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66221/1/Ozone%20application%20in%20fresh%20fruits%20and%20vegetables.pdf Mohd Aziz, Khawarizmi and Ding, Phebe (2018) Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables. Pertanika Journal of Scholarly Research Reviews, 4 (2). pp. 29-35. ISSN 2462-2028 http://www.pjsrr.upm.edu.my/index.php/pjsrr/article/view/155
spellingShingle Mohd Aziz, Khawarizmi
Ding, Phebe
Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
title Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
title_full Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
title_fullStr Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
title_full_unstemmed Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
title_short Ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
title_sort ozone application in fresh fruits and vegetables
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66221/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66221/1/Ozone%20application%20in%20fresh%20fruits%20and%20vegetables.pdf