Processing of fruits and grapes the creation high-quality food items are completely consistent with requirements not destroying produced crop. Making candied from fresh is a processed product that can increase shelf life by many years. The processing to produce high-value products be done without cultivated Candied fruits, for example, made significantly prolong their Research was conducted in ...

The peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tiphritidae), is an economic insect pest attacking the fruits of mangoes, apricots, guava, citrus, and peaches. This pest is difficult to be controlled by the traditional chemicals due to the behavior of its larvae that hide inside the fruits or its pupae that pupate in the soil. The present study documented the molecular identificatio...

High-performance cation exchange chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry or electrochemical detection was found to be an efficient tool for analyzing Amadori compounds derived from hexose and pentose sugars. The method allows rapid separation and identification of Amadori compounds, while benefiting from the well-known advantages of mass spectrometry, such as specificity and sensitiv...

Some of the early studies on the vitamin content of dried fruits and vegetables are open to the objection that the products studied either were not commercial or were dried under conditions that affect adversely many qualities other than vitamins of the products. This report covers a part of an investigation undertaken cooperatively by the two laboratories involved, and intended to show t,he ef...

Dried apricot is one of the stored fruit most endangered to be infested by the Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner). The aim of the present study was to identify volatile compounds from dried apricot that elicit an electrophysiological response in P. interpunctella adults. The volatiles were collected from the headspace of a glass vial with dried apricots using closed-loop-stripping ...