Postharvest technologies are needed for horticultura commodities because its perishable characteristic. The technics are included cleaning, curing, sorting or grading, degreening, packing, and cooling. Especially in cooling application, there are two variables influenced characteristic of product i.e temperature and hummidity. Temperature of 0-7 ºC and hummidity of 90-95% are recommended to be used because very effective to decrease of water losses, material dextructive of bacterial, growth root, respiration, texture and color changing.
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