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WorksheetsTopic 7-Produce Storage
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following is the importance of temperature control of fresh horticultural commodities?
Keep cool
maintain the temparature
Reduce quality
Storage life
Which of the following commodity as category as MOST SUSCEPTIBLE of chilling injury?
Banana
Grape
Orange
Turnip
The main factor to control after harvesting, during storage and before reach to consumer is ____.
photosynthesis
carbon dioxide
packaging
temperature
Which of the following relate with Forced Air Cooling?
Can use either an immersion or a shower system.
Some commodities are cooled by filling packed containers with crushed or flaked ice.
Allows cold air to be in direct contact with warm product.
The products are placed in a chilled vacuum chamber and air is exhausted by a vacuum pump.
The speed, uniform cooling and no weight loss by dehydration is can use by _____ method.
Room cooling
Hydrocooling
Vacuum cooling
Packing Icing
The best method of cooling to reduce temperature of lettuce is _____.Lettuce
Room Cooling
Forced Air cooling
Packing icing
Vacuum cooling
Choose the type of cooling method on diagram above.
Room cooling
Hydrocooling
Forced Air Cooling
Vacuum Cooling
Select the suitable characteristic of cooling method on diagram above.
With proper design, fast, uniform cooling can be achieve through stacks of pallet bins or unitized pallet loads of containers.
Its most common use is for products with a relatively long storage life that are stored in the same room in which they are cooled.
This cooling method can use either an immersion or a shower system to bring products in contact with the cold water.
The constant supply of melt water keeps a high RH around the product.
Choose the true statement between hydrocooling and packing icing.
Hydrocooling use water as a sources but packing icing use crushed or flaked ice to cool the commodities.
The suitable commodity use to cool using hydrocooling are root vegetables but packing icing is lemon grass.
Packing icing more speeder and uniformity to cool the commodities than hydrocooling.
Hydrocooling and packing icing are suitables method to cool commodities for long distance.
Select a suitable practice in protecting product from heat damage EXCEPT:
Pack in dark-colored containers
Harvest early evening
Use shade area for temporary field storage/grading
Store the product in direct sunlight
Select the type of produce storage as shown in the diagram.
Room Cooling
Hydrocooling
Forced Air cooling
Packing Icing
Lycopene is a category of one of the _____ pigments.
carotenoid
anthocyanin
chlorophyll
cytokinin
