Table 1.

Samples of ready-to-eat (RTE) leafy salads, expiring date, treatment and coding used in the text.

RTE Salad	Expiring Date	Number of Replicates	Treatment	Code
Rocket	20 June 2018	2	No treatment	RN1–RN2
			Water	RW1–RW2
			Acetic Acid Solution	RV1–RV2
Rocket	23 June 2018	2	No treatment	RN3–RN4
			Water	RW3–RW4
			Acetic Acid Solution	RV3–RV4
Spinach	23 June 2018	4	No treatment	SN1–SN4
			Water	SW1–SW4
			Acetic Acid Solution	SV1–SV4