Table 2.
Effect of AVG coating and PWB packaging on decay incidence of hog plum during storage.
| Treatment | Storage (day) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | |
| Control | 1 ± 0.00Ad | 1 ± 0.00Ad | 1.63 ± 0.06Ac | 2.27 ± 0.12Ab | 2.63 ± 0.12Aa |
| PWB coated hog plum | 1 ± 0.00Ad | 1 ± 0.00Ad | 1.23 ± 0.06Bc | 1.83 ± 0.12Bb | 2.17 ± 0.06Ba |
| AVG coated hog plum | 1 ± 0.00Ac | 1 ± 0.00Ac | 1.03 ± 0.06Cc | 1.53 ± 0.10Cb | 1.97 ± 0.06Ca |
Note: Control: Untreated fruit; AVG: Aloe vera gel; PWB: Paraffin wax-coated paperboard box packaging. Values with different superscript letters in a row (small letter) and a column (Capital letter) are significantly different (P < 0.05). Data are represented as mean ± SD.