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FRESH CUT FRUITS

Fresh cut fruits is a product ready to be eaten fresh. This product is very convenient to handle and maintains freshness, retains flavor, aroma and its nutritional value.

The operations involved in preparing fresh cut fruits are basically depend on the type of fruits and how the fruits are normally being consumed. For fresh cut pineapple the operation involved are cleaning, trimming the crown and peduncle, skin peeling, cutting according to size, immersing in solutions containing calcium chloride, sodium chloride and acid ascorbic followed by draining and packing. For durian, jackfruits and citrus the operation involved are cleaning, precooling, removing the skin and packing the fruitlets.

Polypropylene container with lid is suitable to be used for retail packing of fresh cut fruits. The use of these containers at low temperature will create specific atmosphere around the produce, which will slow down respiration. Polypropylene container is easy to handle and stacking is possible.

Thermal freeze packing is suitable to be used for bulk packing for fresh cut fruits during storage and market distribution. The temperature inside thermal freeze packing can be maintained at low level depending on the surrounding temperature. For fresh cut pineapple the shelf life at 2°C was 14 days, 7 days at 10°C and 2 days at 25°C. However, durian and jackfruits can be stored for 21 days at 2°C, 7 days at 10°C and 2 days at 25°C.

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