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The Effect of Stingless Bee Propolis (Heterotrigona Itama) Extraction as a
Coating on Reducing Anthracnose and Maintaining the Post-Harvest
Quality of Tomato (Solanum Lypersicum)
Nur Farihah Ain binti Abd Rahim
Supervisor: Dr. Fauziah binti Tufail Ahmad
Bachelor of Science Agrotechnology (Postharvest Technology)
School of Food Science and Technology
Stingless bee propolis (Heterotrigona itama) is often disregard by beekeeper when it
may have valuable antifungal properties in it. The objective of this study is to test the
antifungal effect of stingless bee propolis aqueous extraction as a fruit coating on
reducing anthracnose while maintaining the postharvest quality of tomato. There are
six treatments including positive control and negative control were assessed in this
experiment. There was no significant difference in colour, pH level, total soluble solid,
citric acid level and weight loss except for lycopene content which highest in treatment
5 (8%). In the firmness analysis, treatment 6 (10%) is higher than the rest of the
treatment with the value of 0.402 (p>0.05). Treatment 6 (10%) shows the least
disease severity according to the disease severity index. Therefore, based on the
analysis, coating contained 10 % of stingless bee propolis can maintained the postharvest
quality of tomato.
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