Food Analytical Methods

, Volume 9, Issue 3, pp 691–698 | Cite as

Sometimes a Little Mango Goes a Long Way: a Rapid Approach to Assess How Different Shipping Systems Affect Fruit Commercial Quality

  • Cosimo Taiti
  • Elettra Marone
  • Nadia Bazihizina
  • Stefania Caparrotta
  • Elisa Azzarello
  • Antonio William Petrucci
  • Camilla Pandolfi
  • Edgardo Giordani
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Abstract

Mangoes are climacteric and highly perishable fruits and represent the most appreciated tropical fruits in the world for their special taste and aroma. Depending on the structure of the supply chain and on general environmental and technical factors, fruit picking may be anticipated or postponed within the frame time of fruit maturation stage. Hence, mangoes may be collected for long distance sea freight at the unripe green stage, while pre-ripened fruits, usually transported by air to shorten storage time, are harvested later and must be eaten within few days. In the present study, we assess the potential of an evaluation technique that combines conventional ripening measures with the new detection system of volatile compounds using the PTR-ToF-MS to obtain information on the fruit “eating” quality state. Fruits from the same mango cultivar and shipped from the same country with two alternative shipping systems were compared by analysing the evolution of their physicochemical characteristics and volatile organic compound (VOCs) profiles in time. By pooling the entire dataset together, it emerges that VOCs and physicochemical parameters can be used to separate the two types of transport and the two different ripening stages for the air-freighted fruits, while the sea-freighted fruits showed a rather static behaviour between the two sampling time. The two combined methods may provide a simple and fast tool to assess the presence of characters strongly attractive to mango consumers and in a broader context can be helpful in giving a better idea about the eating qualities of the commercialized products.

Keywords

Mango fruits Shipping systems Physicochemical parameters Volatile organic compounds (VOC) Proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry time of flight (PTR-ToF-MS) 
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Conflict of Interest

Cosimo Taiti declares that he has no conflict of interest. Elettra Marone declares that she has no conflict of interest. Nadia Bazihizina declares that she has no conflict of interest. Stefania Caparrotta declares that she has no conflict of interest. Elisa Azzarello declares that she has no conflict of interest. Antonio William Petrucci declares that he has no conflict of interest. Camilla Pandolfi declares that she has no conflict of interest. Edgardo Giordani declares that he has no conflict of interest. This article does not contain any studies with human or animals performed by any of the authors.

Funding

Financial support was provided by the ‘PRAF 2012-2015 MISURA 1.2’ program of Regione Toscana (project VOLATOSCA).

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Cosimo Taiti
    • 1
  • Elettra Marone
    • 2
  • Nadia Bazihizina
    • 1
  • Stefania Caparrotta
    • 1
  • Elisa Azzarello
    • 1
  • Antonio William Petrucci
    • 1
  • Camilla Pandolfi
    • 1
  • Edgardo Giordani
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental SciencesUniversity of FlorenceFlorenceItaly
  2. 2.Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Agriculture Food and EnvironmentUniversity of TeramoMoscianoItaly

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