The consumption of fresh fruit is increasing worldwide due to factors that lead to changes in people's eating habits, such as health care and nutritional aspects of food. The present work aimed to evaluate the quality, quantify the bioactive compounds and the antioxidant capacity of noni fruits in five maturation stages. The work was developed in the Laboratory of Technology of Products of Vegetable Origin of t...
Beans are one of the most produced foods in the whole national territory, being intense the search for productive cultivars, with good culinary characteristics and different nutritional properties. The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of cooking on the centesimal composition of eight cultivars of cowpea: Costela de Vaca, BRS Marataoã, BRS Itaim, BR 17-Gurguéia, BRS Novaera, Paulistinha, Setentão an...
O uso de atmosfera modificada através do envolvimento de frutos com fécula de mandioca denominada de filmes comestíveis vem sendo amplamente utilizada para o decréscimo de perdas pós-colheita, através da redução da atividade metabólica e da perda de água, melhorando seu aspecto comercial, o que reflete no aumento do período de comercialização. O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar o uso de biofilmes comestíveis de...