FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (6): 143-145.

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Study on Effect of Cold Storage and Fi lmPackaging on Celery

 HOU  Jian-She, LI  Zhong-Hua, JIANG  Jie, XUE  Feng-Zhao   

  • Online:2002-06-15 Published:2012-02-13

Abstract: The yellowing and shrinking of celery occurred because of the loss of chlo rophyll and water would lead to rapid fall of freshness quality of th e vegetable.Low temperature storag e obviously prevented celery from yellow-ing.Plasticfilmpackagingeffecti velyretardedthelossofwaterandsh rinking.Thecelerystillretainedf reshwithverylow yellowing rate andwater loss rate after storaged at2℃with plastic -film-bag packaging.

Key words: Celery , Lowtemperature , Filmpackaging , Storage