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This study focuses on investigating the effect of post-harvest handling conditions and storage time on the dehulling efficiency and cooking quality of two varieties of red lentils, as well as optimizing the dehulling conditions. The effects of storage time, storage moisture content and storage temperature, as well as the effect of different storage pre-treatments aiming to simulate post-harvest handling, were studied. Dehulling efficiency was mostly affected by the pre-milling moisture content, regardless of the storage conditions. Pre-treatments involving moisture content changes lowered the dehulling efficiency of both varieties of red lentils, whereas freezing and thawing cycles had less of a negative effect on the dehulling characteristics. Textural parameters were mostly affected by storage time; samples became harder after storage. The final recommendation arising from this study is to monitor the moisture content of lentils during storage as it has a detrimental effect on both the dehulling and cooking quality.

This study focuses on investigating the effect of post-harvest handling conditions and storage time on the dehulling efficiency and cooking quality of two varieties of red lentils, as well as optimizing the dehulling conditions. The effects of storage time, storage moisture content and storage temperature, as well as the effect of different storage pre-treatments aiming to simulate post-harvest handling, were studied. Dehulling efficiency was mostly affected by the pre-milling moisture content, regardless of the storage conditions. Pre-treatments involving moisture content changes lowered the dehulling efficiency of both varieties of red lentils, whereas freezing and thawing cycles had less of a negative effect on the dehulling characteristics. Textural parameters were mostly affected by storage time; samples became harder after storage. The final recommendation arising from this study is to monitor the moisture content of lentils during storage as it has a detrimental effect on both the dehulling and cooking quality.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-07-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:03:04Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 campos_co_dr_botfca.pdf: 2580813 bytes, checksum: 0454472d6d9a8e04547aab81ac54ae85 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho foi conduzido em quatro etapas, visando acompanhar o desenvolvimento das características físico-químicas de frutos de umbuzeiro (Spondias tuberosa Arruda); estabelecer a curva de crescimento do fruto e aspectos pós-colheita dos frutos do umbuzeiro, objetivando estabelecer estratégias para melhor conservar os frutos, tendo em vista que o fruto desta fruteira, caracteriza-se como uma fruta exótica, já alcançando o mercado europeu. As plantas escolhidas, localizam-se na quadrícula 400 e 420 de Longitude (W. C) e 80 e 100 de Latitude Sul, sendo colhidos frutos de vinte plantas em cinco Unidades Geoambientais. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado e o arranjo, a depender da situação, fatorial aninhado (nested). Concluiu-se neste trabalho que os umbuzeiros presentes nas Unidades Geoambientais da Depressão Sertaneja, apresentam grande variabilidade fenotípica, manifestada pelo peso médio do fruto, peso médio da polpa, teor de vitamina C e acidez titulável. De acordo com a curva de crescimento do fruto, os estádios podem ser visualizados pelo peso do fruto e pela coloração da casca. O florescimento do umbuzeiro ocorre entre setembro e outubro, a fecundação das flores não ocorre todas de uma só vez, são fecundadas paulatinamente no decorrer de trinta dias, em média, fazendo com que a colheita se estenda entre vinte e trinta e cinco dias. A classificação proposta, dos estádios de desenvolvimento foi de 1FTV-F (fruto totalmente verde. Figa - caroço esbranquiçado, em formação), 2FTV-D (fruto totalmente verde. Devéz - caroço duro, ponto de umbuzeitona), 3FTV-In (fruto totalmente verde. Inchado - início da pigmentação), 4FPA-M-1 (fruto com predominância do amarelo - Maduro 1), 5FTA-M-2 (fruto totalmente amarelo - Maduro 2), 6FTA-P (fruto totalmente amarelo - Passado). O conteúdo de vitamina C no suco... / This work was carried out in four stages in order to follow the development of the physical and chemical characteristics of umbu tree fruits (Spondias tuberosa Arruda) and to establish the fruit growth curve and aspects of postharvest of umbu tree fruits with the goal to establish strategies to improve conservation of umbu fruits since it is an exotic fruit reaching the European markets. The fruits were harvested from twenty plants randomly chosen in five Geoambiental unities located in quadrants 400 and 420 of longitude (W. C) and 80 and 100 of south latitude. The experimental design was completely randomized in a factorial (nested) arrangement when necessary. The conclusion was that the umbu trees present in the Geoambiental unities showed high variability expressed by average of fruit weight, fruit pulp, vitamin C contents and titrable acidity. According to the fruit growth curve the stage can be observed by fruit weight and coloration of rind. The bloom of umbu tree occurs between September and October, the fecundation of flowers do not develop at one time but instead gradually on average of thirty days and harvest occur between twenty and thirty five days. The proposal classification of umbu trees stages was the following: 1FTV-F (fruit totally green. Figa - seed white in formation), 2FTV-D (fruit totally green Devez - hard seed, ponto de umbuzeitona), 3 FTV -In (fruit totally green. Swelled - start of pigmentation, 4FPA - M - 1 (fruit predominantly yellow - ripe 1), 5 FTA -M - 2 (fruit totally yellow - ripe 2), 6FTA - P (fruit totally yellow - over-ripe). The vitamin C contents in umbu juice varied from 41, 9g in 100 ml in stage 1FTV - F (figa) to 8,5g in 100 ml in stage 5 FTA-M-2 (ripe 2). The titrable acidity, quantity of citric acid, varied from 4,5g in 100g of juice in stage 1FTV-F (figa) to 1,4g in 100g of juice in stage 5 FTA-M-2 (ripe 2). The soluble solids given... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

The object of this thesis was to investigate the role of two different harvest protocols on the post mortem physiology of Chinook salmon, and associated deteriorative processes that occur during frozen storage of the white muscle tissue. The two different harvest methods employed, termed 'rested' and 'exercised', were selected because of the contrasting levels of activity of the animal prior to, and upon, slaughter. While the latter represents conventional harvest techniques Rested and exercised harvesting protocols produced tissue in significantly different physiological states. Immediately post harvest, rested tissue maintained high metabolic energy stores of ATP and glycogen within the tissue, with low concentrations of tissue and plasma lactate. Exercised tissue exhibited near depleted concentrations of ATP and glycogen and a marked metabolic acidosis and lactate accumulation. When frozen immediately post harvest, rested white muscle tissue stored at -19℃ showed no significant changes in these metabolite concentrations over a six month period of profiling. However, during storage of rested tissue at -9℃, hydrolysis of ATP and glycogen with no coincident increase in lactate was observed. No significant changes in metabolite levels were observed within exercised tissue stored at -19 and -9℃, owing to the lack of metabolic energy stores. Transfer of tissue from frozen (-80 and -19℃) to chilled (-1 and +4℃) temperatures witnessed a rapid depletion of tissue ATP and glycogen stores, with rapid increases in tissue lactate concentrations. This metabolic activity was more significant in rested tissue owing to the larger concentrations of metabolic energy stores. This metabolic activity was identified to occur between the temperatures of -3 and -1.5℃ and occurred abruptly (i.e. ATP concentrations depleting in less than one hour) in time. During frozen storage (-19℃ and -9℃), harvest treatment had no significant effect on lipid oxidation processes. However, rested tissue showed a significant ability to retard lipid oxidation processes once removed from frozen storage and placed at chilled temperatures. Throughout six months storage at -19℃ storage, harvest treatment had a significant effect on the rate of protein denaturation as rested tissue consistently held higher concentrations of soluble protein over the storage period. No significant effect was observed between treatments in the rate of protein denaturation during one month frozen (-19℃) then chilled (+4℃) storage. In a supplementary frozen (-80℃) then chilled (-1℃) storage experiment, post mortem storage of rested, whole fish, at chilled (+5℃) temperatures prior to white muscle excision and freezing, was compared to rested and exercised tissue in which the white muscle had been excised and then frozen immediately post harvest. In this experiment rested tissue exposed to a 6 or 24 hour post mortem chilled storage period demonstrated significant retardation of lipid oxidation processes when compared to rested white muscle tissue that was excised and frozen immediately post harvest. Further comparison of the six and 24 hour post mortem stored tissue showed a significant increase in lipid oxidation products after 21 and 24 days chilled storage, respectively. Comparison of results from the six and 24 hour post mortem storage experiment were bordering on significance (p=0.083), warranting further investigation on the effect of post mortem storage of rested tissue on lipid oxidation processes.

220 pp. / A collection of hands-on, interactive activities designed to engage youth in understanding purposes, uses, applications, and designs of rainwater harvesting systems. Together the activities promote a culture of conservation through the development of rainwater harvesting demonstration and use projects, encouragement of community awareness and action, and optimally the reduction of groundwater and surface water use.

This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project.

This dissertation consists of three different essays evaluating solutions to postharvest challenges faced by farmers in Kenya and Tanzania. In the first essay we see that demand for a new storage technology the Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags in Western Kenya, a completely new technology for almost the entire sample, was highly elastic and that a small proportion of the population would buy at the current market price. In the second essay we find evidence that farmers, who are primarily growing for maize consumption are more concerned about food safety in maize than traders, who are willing to pay less to keep the maize safer. In the third essay in Tanzania, we find that liquidity concerns at harvest prevent farmers from optimizing maize storage and sales decisions.

O abacaxi é uma das frutas tropicais mais famosas, produzidas e consumidas no mundo. O seu bom aspecto visual pode levar à aquisição de fruto ácido, sem doçura e sem a qualidade de consumo desejada. O Smooth Cayenne é o cultivar de abacaxi mais produzido mundialmente e a sua produção no Brasil está concentrada na região Sudeste. O seu volume de comercialização no Entreposto Terminal de São Paulo - ETSP da Companhia de Entrepostos e Armazéns Gerais de São Paulo CEAGESP vem diminuindo ao longo do tempo quando comparado ao cultivar Pérola, cujas regiões de produção estão mais distantes e as estradas de acesso são piores. O objetivo deste estudo foi retratar a qualidade do abacaxi Smooth Cayenne, considerado como o mais valorizado pelos atacadistas, com medidas simples e objetivas, que possam ser facilmente adotadas pelos produtores na colheita. Os frutos, produzidos nos estados de São Paulo e Minas Gerais, foram coletados semanalmente, entre Outubro de 2007 a Janeiro de 2009. Foi considerado saboroso o abacaxi que apresentou, nos terços apical, mediano e basal, teor de sólidos solúveis - SS maior ou igual a 12 ºBrix, um limite máximo de acidez titulável - AT de 0,6% expressos em ácido cítrico e a relação SS/AT maior ou igual a 20. Não foi possível estabelecer uma boa correlação entre as variáveis de caracterização destrutivas e não destrutivas do abacaxi. A avaliação dos aspectos qualitativos de sabor exige a utilização de medidas destrutivas. Os frutos saborosos, mostraram-se menores, mais leves e mais firmes e com maior pH do que os não saborosos. Foi desenvolvido um modelo de regressão logística em que a variável resposta indica a probabilidade de um abacaxi ser saboroso ou não. O modelo que utilizou as variáveis: teor de sólidos solúveis, circunferência da base, comprimento com coroa e firmeza mostrou efeito significativo, para os abacaxis Smooth Cayenne colhidos no segundo semestre, em relação à probabilidade do abacaxi ser saboroso. / The pineapple is one of the most famous and worldly produced and consumed fresh fruit. Its good appearance can take to the acquisition of an acidic and sugarless fruit, lacking the necessary consumption qualities. The Smooth Cayene pineapple is the variety most produced worldwide and in Brazil. Its production is concentrated at the Southeast Region. Its volume at CEAGESPs market has been decreasing over time, when compared to the Pérola variety, that has more production are more distant and access roads are worse. The purpose of this study was to make a Smooth Cayenne pineapples quality profile, measuring and correlating the quality attributes of the fruit, considered the most valued, by the CEAGESPs pineapple whosalers, using simple and objective measures, that could be easily adopted by the growers at harvest. The fruit, that was collected each week from 2007, October to 2009, February, was produced at the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. A fruit was considered tasty when, at its apical, median and basal transversal slices,presented the soluble solids content equal or superior to 12o Brix, an acidity equal or inferior to 0,6%, measured by titratable acidity, reported as % citric acid and the relation soluble solids and titratable acidity equal or superior to 20. It was not found a good correlation between the internal and external characteristics of the fruit. The evaluation of the taste demands destructive measures. The tasty fruits are smaller size, weight less and have more firmness, higher pH than the non tasty fruits. A logistic regression model was developed to indicate the probability of the fruit being tasty or not tasty. The variables soluble solids content, basal circumference, length of the fruit with its crown and firmness has shown significance for the fruits harvested at the second semester of the year. The same wasn´t true for the fruits harvested at the first semester, from January to July, perhaps because there were fewer tasty fruits at this time.

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