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The Effect of Edible Gum Arabic Coating on Maintaining Postharvest
Quality of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Amirah Izzati Binti Mohamad
Supervisor: Dr. Wan Zawiah Binti Wan Abdullah
Bachelor of Science Agrotechnology (Postharvest Technology)
School of Food Science and Technology
Coating of cucumber has been created to increase the shelf-life of the cucumber due
to its short shelf-life and perishable fresh produce which may lead to loss of
postharvest quality. They are coated with different concentration of gum arabic which
is 10%, 20% and 30%. The coating of cucumber can preserve the postharvest quality
and its shelf life. The parameters that have been used are weight, wrinkle score,
percentage of decay, colour, firmness, total soluble solid and sensory evaluation test.
There were significant difference in term of weight, total soluble solid, firmness, colour
and sensory evaluation of the cucumber between the treatments (p