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The Postharvest of Tropical Fruits in Brazil

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Brazil is the largest producer of tropical fruits in the world, showing expanding production, and aiming to improve internal and external trade due to numerous growth opportunities. Besides bananas, pineapples, papayas, melons and mangoes, Brazil has a huge variety of native fruits from the Amazon and the Cerrado regions such as açaí, abiu, cupuaçu, camu-camu, and buriti. These fruits have a great marketing potential and may meet consumer interests in unique products and in foods characterized by high amount of bioactive compounds. Thus, recently, the research on fruit postharvest increased in order to improve our knowledge of the physiological and biochemical aspects of these fruits to develop appropriate techniques for fruit handling and storage.

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  1. Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Av. Padua Dias, 11, CP 09, CEP 13.418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

    Patrícia Maria Pinto & Angelo Pedro Jacomino

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Biosciences Institute, São Paulo State Univeristy (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

    Giuseppina P. P. Lima

  2. Department of Chemical Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Fabio Vianello

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Pinto, P.M., Jacomino, A.P. (2013). The Postharvest of Tropical Fruits in Brazil. In: Lima, G., Vianello, F. (eds) Food Quality, Safety and Technology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1640-1_6

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