Download or read book Storage of Perishable Fruits at Freezing Temperatures written by William Vere Gruess and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Storage of Perishable Fruits at Freezing Temperatures: Preliminary Report Many quickly perishable fruits such as berries, apricots, cherries and others can not be held successfully for very long periods at the usual cold storage temperatures for fruit, of 32° F. To 35° F. Because of rapid softening and decay. If held without preliminary treatment at a temperature of 10° F., low enough to freeze the fruit, there is a tendency in certain fruits for the color to become brown and the flavor seriously impaired. It, therefore, seemed desirable to make a pre liminary experimental study of methods of treating the above fruits before storage, at 10° F. To prevent or minimize undesirable changes in color and flavor. At these low temperatures molding or fermenta tion does not occur and ripening process-es are effectively arrested. Therefore, if the problems of retention of color and retention of flavor could be satisfactorily solved, this method of storage should have wide application. The investigations have included not only experiments upon the storage of various quickly perishable fruits, but also upon the utiliza tion of such fruit in canning, preserving, confections, etc., after Six to ten months storage. The data of the first year's experiments have been so promising that it is believed the results will be of considerable immediate value to cold storage establishments, ice cream manufacturers, fruit pre serving factories, and others. Former breweries are equipped with large refrigerating plants, very large glass lined or wooden tank cold storage capacity, and other facilities which could be used for the receiving, preparation and storage of the types of fruits used in the tests. It is probable that a very extensive market could be quickly developed for such fruits during the winter and early spring months and it is believed that the develo'pment of such an industry offers a very attractive field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.