<![CDATA[A Raja Bulu Bananas are one of the perishable horticultural products and have a relatively short shelflife. The ability of a combination of sand, sawdust, and rice husk storage media with different waterlevels as storage media to maintain the quality and extend the shelf life of banana fruit was tested duringstorage. The purpose of this study was to assess the best storage media and water level of thecombination of storage media and cooling water level as a container for banana fruit. The experimentaldesign used in this study was a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with two treatment factors,namely a variety of storage media sand, sawdust, and rice husk, water level height of 5 cm, 10 cm, and15 cm with 3 replications, and an additional control which was stored at room temperature (28±2oC).Parameters observed included weight loss, color, hardness, total soluble solids, temperature, shelf life,and damage level. The results showed that the combination of sand storage media and 15 cm coolingwater surface height was the best media type to maintain the quality and extend the shelf life of rajabulu bananas. The combination was able to maintain the banana fruit for 16 days where the banana fruitwas still bright, green skin color and firm texture.]]>
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