Storage quality of minimally processed potato as influenced by cube size, polythene gauge and vacuum

Abstract

Minimally processed products requires visually acceptable and appealing. The products must have fresh appearance reasonably free of defects and must be of consistent quality throughout the storage and handling. The aim this work was to study the effect of cube size, polythene gauge and vacuum on storage quality of minimally processed potato. Among all the combinations, the potato cubes with 2 cm3 cube sizes, 200 gauge polythene bags and with vacuum packaging recorded better storage quality compared to 1 cm3 cube sizes, 100 gauge polythene bag without vacuum packaging.