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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Banjo, Temitope T
• Oluwole, Omowunmi R
• Nzei, Victoria I

Titel

Preservation of Lycopersicum esculentum (Tomatoes) with Extracts of Annona muricata (Soursop) and Hibiscus sabdariffa (Roselle Plant)

Ist Teil von

• Tropical life sciences research, 2022-03, Vol.33 (1), p.1-22

Ort / Verlag

Malaysia: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Tomatoes are very important vegetable crops in the world but with a perishable nature. Due to its highly perishable nature, various methods have been investigated to increase its shelf life while still preserving its qualities. Therefore, this study investigated the potentials of the parts of and the calyces of in the preservation of tomato fruits. Tomato fruits were washed and treated with powdered, aqueous and ethanolic extracts of the leaves, seeds, bark of the and calyces of at different concentrations of 3%, 5%, 6%, 9% and 12% w/v. The tomato fruits were placed in well-aerated baskets for a period of 35 days during which organoleptic and microbial analysis were carried out. The different treatments with and had significant effects on the preservation of the tomato fruits at < 0.05. The leaves of proved most effective preserving up to 50% of the tomatoes after the monitoring period. Moreover, 6% (w/v) of the aqueous extract of the leaves of resulted in a preservation rate of 75% of the tomato fruits. The spoilage microorganisms isolated from the tomato fruits are sp. The results of this research carried out shows that the extracts of and had significant preservative activities on the tomato fruits ( < 0.05), thus minimising wastes and economic loss to the farmers and country in general.