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Introduction
Current institution
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September 2010 - July 2015
Position
- Food Science Researcher
Description
- a)Physico-chemical, nutritional & microbiological quality of fresh-cut products;b)Design & development edible coatings to preserve quality of fresh-cut products;c)Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) for predicting nutritional compounds in vegetables
September 2010 - August 2015
Position
- PhD. Agricultural Engineer/Viticulture & Enology Degree
Education
September 2011 - December 2014
September 2010 - July 2015
September 2009 - June 2010
Publications
Publications (8)
Fresh-cut fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill. subsp. vulgare var. azoricum cv. Orion) is a very perishable crop due to the browning that affects the cut-surface, especially on the stem portion of the slices. The occurrence of browning is the main cause of quality loss and decrease of visual acceptance of this product. In the present work the effective...
Appropriate plant material at processing and film packaging selection has a strong influence on product quality preservation. This is the first report studying the feasibility for minimal processing of four zucchini cultivars at two maturity stages, immature (MS1) and mature, stored at 6°C during 10days under different packaging conditions. The tre...
Background
Efforts through conventional breeding to improve the mineral content in horticultural crops have not always been successful mainly due to the fact that standard analytical methods are both costly and time-consuming. We investigated the feasibility of applying near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to the estimation of essential mi...
The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of massive CO2 concentrations and time of treatment on the quality attributes of organic table grape and on the control of artificially inoculated Botrytis cinerea during storage at 0 °C. Grapes were exposed to a continuous flow of air, air+40% CO2, and air+60% CO2 for 24, 48, and 72 hours; fruits wer...
