Mechanism of Fruit and Vegetable Deterioration and the Application of Essential Oil in Its Preservation Field
Fresh fruits and vegetables are susceptible to microbial infection,mechanical damage and other spoilage during storage and transportation.Post-harvest preservation has become a technical bottleneck in the development of the fruit and vegetable industry.Because the traditional preservation method is too simple,the effect is not good,and it is urgent to seek a kind of safety,green and efficient preservation method.In recent years,essential oils have been widely used in the field of food packaging and preservation due to their broad-spectrum antibacterial and antioxidant activities.In this paper,the dete-rioration mechanism of fruits and vegetables were reviewed,and the research status of the methods of essential oil fumiga-tion,impregnation,essential oil-gas combination,essential oil microcapsule,essential oil composite coating,essential oil preservation paper,essential oil nanoemulsion on fresh fruits and vegetables were summarized,to provide a reference for the industrial application of essential oil in the field of fruit and vegetable preservation.
essential oilsfruits and vegetablesretain freshnessdeterioration mechanismapplication mode