To prolong the shelf life of green chili pepper, packaging films such as 30 low density polyethylene(LDPE), 20 perforated polyolefin (SM250), 30 cast polypropylene (CPP) and 15 polyolefin (MPD) were used. LDPE showed a suitable gas concentration

To prolong the shelf life of green chili pepper, packaging films such as 30 low density polyethylene(LDPE), 20 perforated polyolefin (SM250), 30 cast polypropylene (CPP) and 15 polyolefin (MPD) were used. LDPE showed a suitable gas concentration which consisted of 3-5% O and below 5% COfor keeping quality of green chili peppers after 10 days. Though weight loss was 9.3% for SM250 after 5 days, others showed below 2.0% weight loss after 40 days. Green chili peppers inside CPP package revealed a great decrease in ascorbic acid content after 30 days. SM250 showed a less total microbial count among packages, but there was no great differences among packages.

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