Avaliação de coberturas comestíveis compostas por quitosana e argila no revestimento em tomates sob refrigeração pelo método dipping
Tomatoes are very perishable fruits and have short shelf life, demonstrating a reason to develop technologies to reduce these losses. In the food industry, chitosan stands out as being of natural, renewable, biodegradable, nontoxic, and film-forming property. The clay enables a greater adhesion of t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Revista verde de agroecologia e desenvolvimento sustentável 2012, Vol.7 (5) |
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Zusammenfassung: | Tomatoes are very perishable fruits and have short shelf life, demonstrating a reason to develop
technologies to reduce these losses. In the food industry, chitosan stands out as being of natural, renewable,
biodegradable, nontoxic, and film-forming property. The clay enables a greater adhesion of the film on the surface of
the fruit, and is used to close vacancies existing in the polymer network. Considering the characteristics of chitosan
and clay, in the present work deals with the characterization and use of films composed of chitosan and clay, with
application in coating tomatoes, to increase the shelf life of fruits and thus reduce post-harvest losses. The film was
prepared with 1% chitosan and 1% clay, allowed to dry by casting method, and then analyzes were performed:
thickness, solubility, opacity and water vapor permeability. For physical-chemical analysis, the film was prepared and
applied to the fruit, by dipping method. They were stored under refrigeration at 13 ± 1 °C and relative humidity of 80
± 5% for 12 days, and the analyzes done every three days. Analyses were: weight loss, firmness, peel color, soluble
solids, acidity, ascorbic acid and soluble solids and acidity. Results of the films characteristics were similar with
literature. For physical-chemical analyzes, no significant effect was obtained for the interaction between treatment
and time, and the mass loss for isolated treatment effect and time and significant effect of time for other
characteristics in storage conditions.
O tomate é um fruto muito perecível e com curta vida de prateleira, demonstrando uma necessidade do
desenvolvimento de tecnologias que reduzam estas perdas. Na indústria de alimentos, a quitosana se destaca por ser
de origem natural, renovável, biodegradável, atóxico e propriedade de formação de filme. A argila possibilita uma
maior aderência do filme na superfície do fruto, e é utilizada para fechar vacâncias existentes na rede polimérica.
Tendo em vista as características da quitosana e da argila, no presente trabalho é abordada a síntese e utilização de
filmes compostos por quitosana e argila, com aplicação em revestimento em tomates, visando o aumento da vida útil
dos frutos e assim diminuir as perdas pós-colheita. O filme foi sintetizado com 1% de quitosana e 1% argila. Para a
caracterização, os filmes foram preparados e deixados secar pelo método casting, e em seguida foram realizadas as
análises de espessura, solubilidade, opacidade e permeabilidade ao vap |
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ISSN: | 1981-8203 1981-8203 |