. 2020 Jul 22;8(8):1095. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8081095

Table 1.

Microbial counts in vacuum impregnating liquids (VI LIQ) and apple samples: comparison between predicted and experimental values. VI APP stands for vacuum impregnated apples, FD stands for freeze-dried apples, AD_0.45 stands for apples air-dried until reaching a water activity value a_w ≈ 0.45 and AD_0.35 stands for apples air-dried until reaching a a_w ≈ 0.35. Mean value of three replicates ± standard deviation. Different letters in the same column indicate statistically significant differences with a 95% confidence level (p-value < 0.05).

Sample	TRE%_HPH	Log CFU/g
Sample	TRE%_HPH	Experimental	Log Reduction
VI LIQ	0%_0MPa 10%_0MPa 0%_100MPa 10%_100MPa	8.52 ± 0.02^fgh 9.1 ± 0.2ⁱ 8.94 ± 0.12^hi 8.48 ± 0.07^fg	-
VI APP x^w = 85.3 ± 1.2 g w/100 g	0%_0MPa 10%_0MPa 0%_100MPa 10%_100MPa	7.839 ± 0.009^de 8.20 ± 0.11^ef 8.1 ± 0.2^ef 7.7 ± 0.5^cd	0.10 ± 0.02^j −0.09 ± 0.04ⁱ −0.08 ± 0.04ⁱ −0.05 ± 0.02ⁱ
FD x^w = 5.0 ± 1.0 g w/100 g	0%_0MPa 10%_0MPa 0%_100MPa 10%_100MPa	8.12 ± 0.10^ef 8.74 ± 0.06^ghi 8.39 ± 0.04^fg 7.68 ± 0.08^cd	−0.53 ± 0.02^g −0.22 ± 0.04^h −0.64 ± 0.08^g −0.9 ± 0.3^f
AD_0.45 x^w = 11.4 ± 1.5 g w/100 g	0%_0MPa 10%_0MPa 0%_100MPa 10%_100MPa	7.46 ± 0.05^c 8.26 ± 0.03^ef 8.217 ± 0.004^ef 7.80 ± 0.04^cde	−1.167 ± 0.009^e −1.46 ± 0.03^cd −1.60 ± 0.07^c −1.25 ± 0.02^de
AD_0.35 x^w = 9.2 ± 0.8 g w/100 g	0%_0MPa 10%_0MPa 0%_100MPa 10%_100MPa	7.5 ± 0.3^cd 6.25 ± 0.08^a 7.02 ± 0.03^b 6.10 ± 0.02^a	−1.337 ± 0.009^de −2.68 ± 0.03^a −2.10 ± 0.07^b −2.63 ± 0.02^a