Apricots and Peaches: Nutritional Properties, Post-Harvest Management and Potential Health Benefits

by Jeanne Hansen

Overview

This book presents research on the nutritional properties, post-harvest management and potential health benefits of apricots and peaches. Chapter One provides a brief description of the production area of wild apricot in India, the nutritional properties and health benefits of wild apricot, and the useful products made from the fruit. Chapter Two summarizes the current knowledge on Japanese apricot, including its correlation with oral diseases for preventive medicine. Chapter Three discusses properties, deficit irrigation strategies and post-harvest management of peaches and nectarines. Chapter Four reviews the impact of different industrial processing techniques of sterilization and associated storage conditions on nutritional and functional characteristics of the processed peach, and establishes their role on the nutritional and functional quality of fruit. Chapter Five examines the physico-chemical and sensory characterization of Sicilian white flesh peaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634846844
Publisher:	Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/08/2016
Series:	Nutrition and Diet Research Progress
Pages:	145
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)