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Nutritive Quality of Long‐Distance Shipped Green Beans for Processing
Author(s) -
MASSEY L. M.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1983.tb03541.x
Subject(s) - environmental science , food science , growing season , zoology , mathematics , biology , agronomy
ABSTRACT Vitamin A and C contents of bulk raw snap beans for canning from distant sources (up to 12 hr) were measured and compared to that from local sources. Statistically significant differences were found between vitamin contents of beans arriving from some locations for some seasons, but equally large season‐to‐season variations were also found. Much of this variation could be attributed to cultural conditions. Differences found were relatively minor, particularly in view of the large losses which are known to occur during processing. Our observations indicate that retention of these two vitamins following long distance shipping is at least as great as retention of other quality factors.