National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Kujithekera (Garcinia cowa Roxb.) commonly known as Cowa is a very well known underutilized tropical fruit of Northeast India. It is sub acid in taste with immense medicinal properties. Hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is a principal factor of this fruit which acts as an anti-obesity factor. The aril portion can be eaten locally and can be prepared jellies and pickles out of it. Cowa fruits are very perishable in nature and have a very short shelf life. Considering its potential medicinal properties a work has been carried out where various post harvest treatments are used and fruits were packed in transparent perforated (0.2% ventilation) low densitypolyethylene bags (25μ). At an interval of 2 days sensory evaluation has been done throughout the storage and when decaying starts, growth of two organisms viz. Penicillium italicum and Penicillium digitatum was observed, which were found through microbial analysis. Fruits dipped in 1 per cent wax emulsion for 5 min, air dried and packed in transparent perforated (0.2% ventilation) LDPE bags (25μ) were found to have the maximum shelf life (6 days) and also growth of the organisms here were seen at last amongst the other treatments.
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