Evaporative Coolers for the Postharvest Management of Fruits and Vegetables

Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Daniel Ingo Hefft, Duncan Onyango Mbuge, Tilahun Seyoum Workneh

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780323886215
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Food Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Evaporative Coolers for the Postharvest Management of Fruits and Vegetables covers world demand for food of high quality without chemical preservatives and with extended shelf life. The book provides the practical application of evaporative coolers, with a strong focus on postharvest management and fruit/vegetable science as high moisture foods are highly perishable. Special emphasis is laid on the impact of the evaporative coolant structure on the nutritional and food safety content of fresh produce. Moreover, the book covers the effect of evaporative coolant structure towards the reduction of spoilage microorganisms responsible for the spoilage of post-harvest losses of various fruits and vegetables.

Edited by a team of specialists, this title also helps people dealing with microbiology understand how this simple technology can help improve product quality for communities that currently lack access to cooling or have unreliable power supplies.

• Thoroughly explores shelf-life extensions that can be achieved when applying evaporative cooling
• Covers postharvest management through evaporative cooling
• Brings food and consumer science aspects from evaporative cooled fruits and vegetables
• Presents information on the interaction of edible coatings towards the extension of climacteric and non-climacteric fruits

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter One: Key contributors to postharvest losses and the scale of the problem
• Chapter Two: Influence of geographical and climatic factors on the performance of evaporative coolers for the storage of postharvest produce
• Chapter Three: Influence of evaporative coolant structures on the postharvest attributes of climacteric fruits
• Chapter Four: Effect of evaporative cooling on the attributes of nonclimacteric fruits
• Chapter Five: Effectiveness of evaporative cooling to extend shelf life of fruits and vegetables
• Chapter Six: Application of edible coatings in porous evaporative cooling
• Chapter Seven: Recent advances in evaporative cooling applications in fruits and vegetables for short-term cooling at the postharvest stage
• Chapter Eight: Health benefits derived from fruits and vegetables stored using evaporative coolers
• Chapter Nine: Postharvest management of aflatoxins in fruits and vegetables
• Chapter Ten: Synergetic effect of edible coatings from natural materials on the shelf-life extension of fruits and vegetables
• Chapter Eleven: Effect of evaporative coolant structure on chemical, biochemical, and physiological changes in fruits and vegetables
• Chapter Twelve: Effect of evaporative cooling structures on the sensory attributes of fruits and vegetables and consumer acceptability
• Chapter Thirteen: Effectiveness of evaporative coolant structures in reducing spoilage microorganisms
• Chapter Fourteen: Farmers’ awareness of edible coatings and other dissemination measures
• Chapter Fifteen: The effect of evaporative coolant structure on ornamental plants
• Chapter Sixteen: Effect of evaporative cooling structures on tropical and subtropical fruits and nuts
• Chapter Seventeen: Effect of an evaporative cooling structure as a storage technique in the preservation of fresh produce/horticulture to benefit human health
• Chapter Eighteen: Effect of evaporative coolant structure on roots and tubers
• Chapter Nineteen: Evaporative coolers for the postharvest management of fruits and vegetables
• Chapter Twenty: Application of essential oils as edible coatings: Implications of storage in evaporating coolant structure
• Chapter Twenty-One: Chitosan as an edible coating on fruits stored in evaporative cooling structures
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Intelligent freshness indicators in packaging of plant-based food products
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Influence of evaporative cooling, refrigeration, and traditional underground storage methods on the physicochemical properties of amadumbe starch
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Physicochemical properties of amadumbe flour derived from amadumbe corms subjected to different storage methods
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Biogenic nanomaterials with diverse biological activities in the food and biomedical industries
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Patenting protocols, toxicity, risk assessments, and policy issues of nanomaterials with diverse applications in food, biomedical, and other relevant sectors
• Index