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Overall quality maintenance of grapefruit during cold storage using pre-storage neem leaf extract dipping

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The present studies were conducted to investigate the effects of different concentration of neem leaf extract (NLE) (control, 10%, 20% and 30%) on physiological, biochemical, antioxidant properties, and fruit quality attributes of Shamber grapefruit during cold storage at 10 °C up to 43 days. Weight loss, peel weight, juice weight, rag weight, ascorbic acid, total sugars (TS), reducing sugars (RS), non-reducing sugars (NRS), total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), TSS/TA ratio and enzyme activities such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD) and catalase (CAT) were determined. NLE treatments showed significant effect on postharvest quality attributes of Shamber grapefruit. NLE-treated grapefruit (30%) reduced the weight loss (16%), and retained maximum peel weight (9.02%), juice weight (25.56%) and rag weight (19.21%) than untreated control fruit. Moreover, high level of ascorbic acid, TSS, TA, and lower level of TS, RS and NRS were observed in NLE (30%) treated fruits. Enzymatic activities of SOD, POD and CAT of stored grapefruit were highly significant in NLE (30%) treated grapefruit during storage period compared to control. In conclusion, pre-storage NLE (30%) application was the most effective in maintaining various physiochemical properties such as weight loss, ascorbic acid, TS, RS, NRS, TSS, TA, TSS:TA ratio and increasing the antioxidative responses (SOD, POD and CAT) up to 43 days by extending the shelf life of Shamber grapefruit.

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We are grateful to Post-Harvest Research Centre, Ayyub Agriculture Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan for providing us technical support. We are also thankful to our anonymous reviewers for the improvement of our manuscript.

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  1. Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan

    Arsalan Khan, Muhammad Azam, Muhammad Awais Ghani, Ahmad Sattar Khan, Saeed Ahmad, Muhammad Jafar Jaskani & Muhammad Ayyub

  2. College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, People’s Republic of China

    Jiyuan Shen

  3. Barani Agricultural Research Institute, Chakwal, Pakistan

    Muhammad Azhar Iqbal & Naveeda Anjum

  4. Agro-Product Safety Research Center, Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, CAIQ, 11 Ronghua Nanlu, Yi Zhuang, Beijing, 100176, People’s Republic of China

    Jiukai Zhang

  5. Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Muhammad Akbar Anjum

  6. Post Harvest Research Centre, Ayub Agriculture Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Anjum Javed

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AK conducted experiment and analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. MA, MAG, SA designed, analyzed and supervised the study. ASK, MAI, MAA, MA, NA and AJ helped in investigation, methodology, analyzing the data and research trial. JS, JZ and MJJ helped in writing, review and final editing of the manuscript.

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Khan, A., Azam, M., Shen, J. et al. Overall quality maintenance of grapefruit during cold storage using pre-storage neem leaf extract dipping. Food Measure 15, 1727–1736 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-020-00752-2

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