Individual wrapping of radishes with food packaging film

When ‘Taibai’ radishes were individually wrapped with food packaging film, they had a reduced weight and firmness loss and a decreased formation of internal sponginess. When stored at 1 °C, wrapped radishes lost 0.01% of their fresh weight per day when compared with the 0.28% weight loss per day for unwrapped radishes. When stored at 5 °C, wrapped radishes lost 0.02–0.03% of their fresh weight per day when compared with the 0.78% weight loss per day of unwrapped radishes. Wrapped radishes stored for 88 days at 5 °C or 165 days at 1 °C maintained their firmness better than unwrapped radishes. Wrapped radishes had significantly less internal sponginess than unwrapped radishes.