Packaging and Storage of Fruits and Vegetables

Emerging Trends
Herausgeber: Alam, Tanweer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new volume shares a plethora of valuable information on the recent advances in packaging and storage technologies used for quality preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781771889872
• ISBN-10: 177188987X
• Artikelnr.: 62220919

Autorenporträt

Tanweer Alam, PhD, is Director of the Indian Institute of Packaging, Mumbai, India. Before joining IIP, he was a member of the teaching faculty at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, SHUATS, Allahabad, and Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. He has been working for more than a decade at different academic institutions and is also involved in the teaching of graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. His doctoral research work at the prestigious National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India, was based on modified atmosphere packaging of food products. He visited the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, under a faculty exchange program funded by the European Union under the East-West Food Project. He has participated in INTERPACK, Dusseldorf, Germany, and was a jury member for the Asia Star and World Star awards. Dr. Alam has organized several national and international conferences and workshops for promoting the packaging industry. He has published research and technical articles in high-impact refereed journals and has delivered invited lectures both in India and abroad. He has also published book chapters and has edited dozens of proceedings and technical souvenirs. He is Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Dairy Science and the Journal of Postharvest Technology, Managing Editor of the Journal of Packaging Technology and Research, and an editorial board member of the magazine Processed Food Industry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Physicochemical and Physiological Changes During Storage 2. Quality
Characteristics of Packaging Materials and Containers Used for Storage of
Fresh Produce 3. Packaging and Storage of Fruits and Vegetables for Quality
Preservation 4. Biodegradable Packaging: A Sustainable Approach for
Packaging of Fruits and Vegetables 5. Edible Coating for Improvement of
Horticulture Crops 6. Active Packaging of Fruits and Vegetables: Quality
Preservation and Shelf-Life Enhancement 7. Modified Atmosphere Packaging
for Horticultural Products 8. Storage of Fruits and Vegetables: An Overview
9. Characterization of Modern Cold Storage for Horticulture Crops 10.
Sanitation and Hygiene Process in Storage 11. Insect Pest Infestation
During Storage of Fruits and Vegetables 12. Postharvest Diseases in Fruits
and Vegetables During Storage