Wafaa Abedo

(1). Horticulture department, Faculty of agriculture, university of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.

(*Corrsponding author: Dr. Wafaa Abedo. E-Mail: madrid198182@yahoo.com).

Received: 27/08/2020                                Accepted: 21/09/2020

Abstract

This research aimed to study the effect of plastic and paper bags on the physiological and chemical characters of pear fruits by using three different sizes of fruits to know the lower lost in weight, water content and diameters, of fruits and its effect on the vitamins, the radio of solid and soluble substances. The results showed that keeping the fruits in paper bags is the best considering the loss of weight, which was (26.4), and the soluble substance arrived to 2.39% and C vitamin was 5.02 ml.gr/100g and the loss of humidity was 19.7%, while the small and medium fruits were the best team the big fruits becomes the loss of weight in the melon fruit arrived to 20.9 gr the loss in diameter was 8.1 mm and the solid substance was 3.02% and the C vitamin content was 7.23 ml.gr/100g and the less lose in humidity was 17.7% by studying the mental effect of the two processes the results showed that the paper bags and the small fruits was the best and over roll on the all treatments.

Keywords: paper bags, plastic. Soluble substance.

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