The Sulfur Dioxide Residues in Fresh Longan at Different Periods after Fumigation
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https://doi.org/10.14456/thaidoa-agres.2009.2Keywords:
longan , sulfurdioxide, fumigation , residuesAbstract
The degradation of sulfur dioxide residues in fresh Iongan was studied at the Office of Agricultural Research and Development Region 1 Chiang Mai in 2005. In the experiment, SO was fumigated to fresh longan with the use of sulfur at 2 different levels namely 500 and 750 g per longan 1,100 kg and stored at 2C. The results showed that the injury of the peel surface growth of fungi, and SO residue levels in the treated longan depended on the level of SO applied. The high level of SO fumigation had effectively prevented from fruit skin browning and surface fungi infestation with the more yellowish outer skin during storage time. The longan treatad with low level of SO showed symptoms of SO injury with irregular brown circles, where as longan without SO<sub>2</sub> fumigation had brown skin. The high level of SO<sub>2</sub> fumigation resulted in higher residues than the low level. Residues were much higher in the peel than in the pulp (15-2615 times). Sulfurdioxide residue levels declined rapidly in the first period fumingation and with the slower rate after fumingation. Sulfurdioxide in the longan pulp treated with low level was 3.13 ppm at the first day after fumigation (DAF). It declined to 50 % at the 3 DAF and was not detected at the 12 DAF. While SO<sub>2</sub> in longan pulp treated with high level was 89-99 ppm during the first 5 DAF. It declined below 50 ppm within 12 DAF and reached 5 ppm at 56 DAF. The results had shown that high level of SO<sub>2</sub> fumigation gave a better result of storage, but the residues were higher.
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