Aspetti tecnologici e qualitativi dei mandarini e mandarino-simili come prodotti minimamente trasformati

In the last years there has been a growing interest toward minimally processed fruits and vegetables for their convenience of use and freshness. So' far, the major share of the market in Italy is mainly veqetables, whereas the consumption of fruit is stili limited to few species ..This could be in part due to the high perishability of cut fruit which have a very short shelf-life. This' study was aimed at evaluating the potential of different cultivars of mandarins and mandarin- like to be minimally processed. Different technological solutions in the operations of peeling and division of the segments were tested.