Natural weight loss of apples of belarusian varieties at short-term and long-term storage

Abstract

In The Institute for Fruit Growing in 2015–2017 apple fruit of Belarusian commercial varieties was screened for natural weight loss at short-term and long-term storage.

For two months of storage of varieties the natural weight loss was: ‘Belorusskoye sladkoye’ – 1.07 %; ‘Vesyalina’ – 1.18 %; ‘Verbnae’ – 1.25 %; ‘Darunak’ – 1.21 %; ‘Imant’ – 0.89 %; ‘Nadzeyny’ – 1.42 %.

At long-term storage (180 days), losses from natural weight loss for ‘Belorusskoye sladkoye’ variety was 10.40 %; ‘Vesyalina’ – 8.75 %; ‘Verbnae’ – 7.45 %; ‘Darunak’ – 9.78 %; ‘Imant’ – 8.59 %; ‘Nadzeyny’ – 10.09 %.

In fact the decrease in weight of apples of domestic varieties exceeded the permissible loss according to ‘Standards of natural loss of fresh potatoes, vegetables and fruits at long-term storage in warehouses of various types’.