Postharvest
The Postharvest Department carries out research work
concerning the maintenance of quality of fruit and vegetables
for fresh market products, frozen and minimaly processed products.
This work includes: the study of the modifications that the various
techniques provoke on the physiological evolution of the products,
and the selection, in accordance with it, of the most appropriate
in each case.
- Citrus Postharvest Technology
- As a part of a programme to determine the most
appropriate parameters for maintaining quality and extending the
supply period (degreening and cold storage) our objective is to
examine the influence of postharvest treatments (temperature management,
hormones, fungicides, wax and plastic covers) on the physiological
and pathological alterations of the product.
- Fruit and vegetable quality
- The objective of this research group is to select
the most suitable techniques that will allow to reduce product
quality losses from harvest to consumption either for the fresh
market (pre-cooling methods, storage temperature, Tª storage,
fungicide treatments, controlled or modified atmosphere, packaging
types, coatings, and polymeric semi-permeable films), as in the
form of frozen, or minimaly processed products.
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Postharvest tecnology in citrus
. Cold storage of new varieties.
. Degreening of extra-early varieties.
. Alternative coatings and fungicidal treatments.
Quality of fruit and vegetable
. Packages,
edible coatings, and semi-permeable plastic covers.
. Freezing.
. Minimaly processed products.
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