[PDF] Top 20 Factors affecting blueberry physical-chemical properties

... Conventional agriculture, using large amounts of fertilizers and plant protection products made it possible to produce enough food to meet global needs. However, these practices led to environmental damage and ... See full document

... some physical and chemical properties of blueberry from different cultivars, namely Duke, Bluecrop, and ...The physical properties evaluated were caliber, color and texture and ... See full document

... several factors, which include pH, temperature and equilibration ...antioxidant properties relevant to human nutrition, since it uses a model biological ... See full document

... mentioned factors were describing the climatic and topographic conditions of the Tasmanian dispersive clay soils, the similarities with the Hungarian experiences are ... See full document

... many factors: the baking time of the dough; the contact and temperature in the baking plates or the formulation (either in fat or in cereal), thus different colours originate within the same sample (Pereira, ... See full document

... important factors for sustaining the global biosphere and fundamental in forest systems sustainability (Wang and Gong ...soil properties can provide useful information on soil quality (Sparling et ... See full document

... soil properties allows us to describe a joint correlation of these variables, besides being fundamental for farming management (OLIVEIRA; FERNANDES; TEIXEIRA, ...Soil properties are not distributed randomly ... See full document

... the factors with observed effects on the movement of pesticides in soil is the influence of organic material originating from the application of pig slurry to agricultural ...soil physical and ... See full document

... external factors, and consists of sets of flexible pipes of cellulose and hemicellulose connected and made stiff by lignin (Pereira et ...its properties vary depending on direction) as the result of unequal ... See full document

... Conventional air-drying is the most frequently used dehydration operation in food industry, and the drying kinetics is greatly affected by air temperature, as well as the material characteristic dimension. On the other ... See full document

... In Table 2, the mineral contents of the panelas evaluated are shown. K had the highest concentration, followed by Ca in most of the lots. This was to be expected since K is the mineral with the major content in sugar ... See full document

... last, with little or no maintenance, for long periods of time. Production of highly resistant concrete structures is required nowadays, which is patent by the increase of studies concerning concrete durabil- ity. One way ... See full document

... Conventional agriculture includes practices such as burning of crop residues, the reversal of topsoil, mobilization for weed control and preparation of the seedbed. These techniques promote soil compaction, erosion, ... See full document

... proposal of the present research includes eight Blueberry jam formulations, from Rabbiteye species (Climax and Powder Blue varieties). For gelling, four formularizations were used: synthetic ATM pectin (F1), ... See full document

... This method provides a high heating rate and does not originate alterations on the surface of the food and hence no crust is formed. The industrial microwave treatment is limited due to its high cost and to the need to ... See full document

... soil chemical and physical properties, but are generally nutrient-poor and have lower EC than animal or municipal wastes (Abad et ...the chemical composition, can not be the exclusive or ... See full document

... The water activity is very important for the access of the stability of the food products because it accounts for the free water in the product that is available for chemical and enzymatic degrading reactions as ... See full document

... One area where this has occurred is to the south of Maracã, where several small ranches (1000-2000 ha) have been established, including Fazenda Patchuli and Fazenda Pau Roxo. The area f[r] ... See full document

... that physical or chemical laws can be incorporated into state-space equations allowing for a more judicious selection of adequate variables as input information, and providing a more realistic explanation ... See full document

... In this study, an extended SSA method, developed as an algorithm, was used to optimize spatial sampling schemes, which is a modification of the simulation algorithm of Simulated Annealing (SAS) (Groenigen et al., 1999; ... See full document