Mango fruit (Mangifera indica L.), cv. ‘Cogshall’, ‘Kent’ and ‘Keitt’ were harvested at different maturities (61–115 d past flowering and 0–307 average g fresh weight for ‘Cogshall’) and at different sizes (364–1563 and 276–894 average g fresh weight for ‘Keitt’ and ‘Kent’, respecively). Immediately after harvest (green) or after 1 week of ripening at room temperature (ripe), fruit were homogen...

Over 60% Serbian soils are heavy, shallow and acidic, especially in west part of this country. Basically, Serbian fruit production is mainly represented in these conditions which are not favorable for intensive fruit growing. However, repair of these soils is a long and very expensive process. Regarding to this, one of the real ways to overcome this problem faster and cheaper is to grow toleran...

date palm spider mite is one of the major pests of date palm in khuzestan.this pest damages fruits in orchards. in the present study responses of 30 native date palm cultivars of khuzestan were evaluated by assessment of pest infestation severity and fruit damage characteristics. based on the responses, cultivars were clustered into four groups as very highly infested cultivars including liloei...

In the operations of banana postharvesting process, design and development related to dehanding machine, cutting crushing machine bunch stalks, fiber extraction stalks are in initial stages. addition, with society urbanization, aging populations hilly mountainous areas, where bananas planted, becoming a more serious problem. The basic physical characteristic parameters bunches, hands, basis for...

OBJECTIVE To describe the beverage portion size consumed and to evaluate their association with excess weight in Brazil. METHODS We used data from the National Dietary Survey, which included individuals with two days of food record aged over 20 years (n = 24,527 individuals). The beverages were categorized into six groups: soft drink, 100% fruit juice, fruit drink, alcoholic beverage, milk, and...

The main objectives of this study were to develop jackfruit-based high fiber bread by utilizing jackfruit rind flour in bread formulation, and to characterize physical properties of produced high fibre bread. Jack fruit rind pieces were undergone few soaking and washing steps prior to get dried and milled. Obtained Jackfruit rind flour (JRF) was incorporated into wheat flour (WF) in three diffe...

Background and Objectives: Chronic gastritis is a chronic inflammation of gastric mucosa associated with various degrees of damages to superficial and glandular epithelia. Garcinia species are evergreen tropical shrubs, cultured in North-Eastern India and Southeast Asia. In Indian traditional medicine, the kokum fruit rinds are used to treat various inflammatory diseases such as gastric ulcers ...

A study was conducted in block vertisol region of Southern part Tamil Nadu with the view to find out suitable custard apple cultivars for region. Twelve years old five viz., Mammoth, Raydurg, Arka Sahan, Balanagar, and APK (Ca)1 were undertaken this study, which planted at spacing 6 m x following randomized design having three replications ten trees each replication. Results consecutive clearly...