| Abstract: | Modified atmosphere packages with Elstar apples in various packaging systems have been investigated. Loss of firmness during shelf-life is used as the quality aspect to judge the performance of the modified atmosphere packages. A system-oriented model is derived that describes the experimentally found concentrations well. In the overall approach the time dependency of the oxygen and carbon-dioxide concentrations are discussed. It is shown that the quality attribute, the softening of apples, can be affected by the choice of packaging material. Hence this approach can be used to optimize modified atmosphere packaging of Elstar apples. |
