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ABSTRACT
Fresh-keeping of fruits and vegetables has always been one of the most attention
problems. With the emergence of new technology of fresh preserving, especially in
recent years, the senseless waste of fruits and vegetables has been some slowdown, but
it still can't be fundamentally solved. In balance, people have not reached a
comprehensive consensus about the water loss mechanism of fruits and vegetables. That,
various kinds fruits and vegetables, a multitude of different factors, and hardness to
improve the stability of the storage environment, lead to that we can't determine
accurately and quantitatively water transfer amount of fruits and vegetables in some
condition, and that it also increased the difficulty of understanding the mechanism of
fruits and vegetables water loss. The following four problems emphatically are
researched in the paper.
(1) After the investigation the heat load of experiment system and the appearance
of measurement tools, fruits and vegetables moisture transfer experiment system that
can control its temperature and relative humidity are independently designed. After
repeated experiments verify, this system, can maintain steady experiments environment
for a long time, can be used for water transfer experiments of others.
(2) Received the mechanism of water loss in fruits and vegetables during storage
by analyzing the impact of different temperatures ( 6 ℃, 9 ℃, 12 ℃, 15 ℃) , relative
humidity ( 40% , 60% , 80% , 99%) to the water loss with using Dutch cucumber as
experimental subjects and the relative rate of water loss and water loss rate are used for
testing index of the dehydration ability of Dutch cucumber . Experimental results show
that : the temperature and the water loss of Dutch cucumber was a positive correlation,
and the relative humidity was negatively correlated with the water loss of Dutch
cucumber; single factor , temperature should be controlled below the 9 ℃and relative
humidity should be controlled more than 80% for single factor; absolute humidity
environment of 99% can effectively control the dehydration of fruits and vegetables; the
relative humidity of 40% , 60%, 80% has a relatively small difference under the same
temperature. Controlling the relative humidity at low temperatures is a preferable
method of fruits and vegetables preservation.
(3) Determined the relative rate of water loss and thus determine its quality good or
bad from the change of Netherlands cucumber sensory and the epidermis hardness by