{"id":11380,"date":"2026-06-30T22:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:07:16","slug":"impact-of-different-packaging-materials-on-selected-quality-attributes-of-pepper-paste-during-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"Impact of different packaging materials on selected quality attributes of pepper paste during storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Maya Alballat<sup>1*<\/sup>, Antoun Youssef<sup>1<\/sup> and Budour Ajib<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">1 College of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Homs University, Homs, Syria.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Maya Alballat: <a href=\"mailto:mayaalballat@gmail.com\">mayaalballat@gmail.com<\/a>, ).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Received<\/strong>: 3\/ 8\/ 2025\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Accepted:<\/strong> 9\/ 12\/ 2025\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">This research was conducted in the Food Chemistry, Storage, and Refrigeration laboratories of the Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, at Homs University. The study was carried out from mid-September 2024 to mid-January 2025. In this research, pepper paste was produced by heating pepper juice using a hot surface at a temperature of 90 C until a concentration of 25 Brix was achieved, after which 5% sodium chloride (NaCl) was added. Subsequently, the samples were stored at room temperature (20\u201330 C) using three types of packaging: glass containers, plastic containers, and aluminum bags. The storage period lasted for four months, during which changes in the following parameters were studied: Brix, total acidity, pH, beta-carotene content, total phenols, and total ash. The results demonstrated the superiority of glass containers in preserving the characteristics of the pepper paste, followed by aluminum bags, and then plastic containers. However, statistical analysis indicated the potential use of aluminum bags as an alternative to glass containers for preserving pepper paste, due to their advantageous properties such as effective insulation, impermeability, light weight, and lower cost compared to glass containers. After four months of storage, the values recorded in the glass containers were as follows: Brix (25.78%), total acidity (1.61%), pH (4.61), beta-carotene (2.12 mg\/100g), total phenols (500.12 mg\/100g), and total ash (9.41 mg\/100g).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Red chili, red chili paste, quality of red chili paste, glass containers, plastic containers, aluminum bags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v13n3p38.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Alballat1*, Antoun Youssef1 and Budour Ajib1 1 College of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Homs University, Homs, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Maya Alballat: mayaalballat@gmail.com, ). Received: 3\/ 8\/ 2025\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accepted: 9\/ 12\/ 2025\u00a0 Abstract This research was conducted in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11383,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}