Post harvest treatments on storage behaviour of okra

Abstract

Freshly harvested, tender green okra fruits cv. Sinnova were subjected to different post harvest treatments viz.,T1 = Virosil Agro (0.5%), T2 = NaOCl (100 ppm Cl), T3 = Ca(OCl)2 (100 ppm Cl), T4 = Virosil Agro + wax (1%), T5 = NaOCl (100 ppm Cl) + wax (1%), T6 = Ca(OCl)2 (100 ppm Cl) + wax (1%), T7 = wax (1%) and packed in polypropylene packages with no perforation in ambient condition (maximum and minimum temperature varied from 23° to 24°C and 19° to 22°C, respectively and relative humidity from 47 to 65%). Considering the overall quality it was found that T5 was the best treatment followed by T7, T4 and T1. However, T7 retained better ascorbic acid and chlorophyll during later period of storage.