title: Use of modified atmosphere packaging to preserve mushroom quality during storage.
abstract: Mushrooms have attracted much attention due to their excellent nutritional and sensory properties. However, they are highly perishable and rapidly lose their organoleptic characteristics. Many methods have been employed for mushroom storage, such as packaging, blanching, canning, or freeze drying. Among them, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) has been widely employed for preserving fresh mushrooms. MAP provides an affordable packaging system that partly avoids enzymatic browning, fermentation and other biochemical processes by maintaining a controlled gas atmosphere. Several factors, including optimum CO2 and O2 partial pressures, permeability, package material, thickness, or product weight, must be considered in order to design a suitable modified atmosphere package for mushrooms. Thus, different strategies are available to preserve mushroom quality after harvest. The article presents some promising patents on use of modified atmosphere packaging to preserve mushroom quality during storage.
authors.affiliation: Centro para la Calidad de los Alimentos, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Campus Universitario Duques de Soria c/ José Tudela, s/n, 42004 Soria, Spain.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Palacios
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moro
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lozano
authors.forename: Matilde
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Arrigo
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Guillamón
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Lafuente
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Villares
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales; D001272:Atmosphere; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D018857:Food Packaging / Q000379:methods*; D005519:Food Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D061353:Food Storage / Q000379:methods*; D010100:Oxygen; D010330:Patents as Topic
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D010100:Oxygen