Recent advances in quality preservation of postharvest mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus): A review

K Zhang, YY Pu, DW Sun - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Agaricus bisporus is the mushroom with the highest global production yield.
However, due to their natural unprotected structure, shelf-life of this kind of mushroom is …

Importance of integrated CFD and product quality modeling of solar dryers for fruits and vegetables: A review

E Getahun, MA Delele, N Gabbiye, SW Fanta… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Improper handling of fruits and vegetables causes a significant postharvest loss. Among the
postharvest preservation mechanisms, solar dryers are reported as sustainable and suitable …

Review of postharvest processing of edible wild-grown mushrooms

C Zheng, J Li, H Liu, Y Wang - Food Research International, 2023 - Elsevier
Edible wild-grown mushrooms, plentiful in resources, have excellent organoleptic
properties, flavor, nutrition, and bioactive substances. However, fresh mushrooms, which …

Fresh mushroom preservation techniques

K Castellanos-Reyes, R Villalobos-Carvajal… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
The production and consumption of fresh mushrooms has experienced a significant
increase in recent decades. This trend has been driven mainly by their nutritional value and …

Drying of shiitake mushroom by combining freeze-drying and mid-infrared radiation

H Wang, M Zhang, B Adhikari - Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2015 - Elsevier
Mid-infrared drying (MIRD) was applied before or after freeze-drying (FD) of shiitake
mushroom to shorten the drying time, to enhance the rehydration, and to better preserve the …

Sustainable Bioconversion of Wetland Plant Biomass for Pleurotus ostreatus var. florida Cultivation: Studies on Proximate and Biochemical Characterization

M Elbagory, S El-Nahrawy, AED Omara, EM Eid… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
The abundant biomass growth of aquatic macrophytes in wetlands is one of the major
concerns affecting their residing biota. Moreover, the biomass degenerates within the …

The kinetics of thin-layer drying and modelling for mango slices and the influence of differing hot-air drying methods on quality

K Mugodo, TS Workneh - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
This study compared the thin-layer drying kinetics of hot-air methods, namely, convective
oven drying (OVD), uncontrolled solar drying (UAD) and modified ventilation greenhouse …

Dehydrated foods: Are they microbiologically safe?

B Chitrakar, M Zhang, B Adhikari - Critical reviews in food science …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Dried foods are low water activity foods with water activity ranging from 0.03 to 0.7. They are
commonly misconstrued to be inherently safe from food borne pathogenic bacteria …

Comparison of freeze-drying with three different combinations of drying methods and their influence on colour, texture, microstructure and nutrient retention of button …

F Pei, W Yang, Y Shi, Y Sun, AM Mariga, L Zhao… - Food and bioprocess …, 2014 - Springer
Freeze-drying (FD) and three different combinations of drying methods: freeze-drying
combined with hot air drying (FD+ AD), freeze-drying combined with vacuum drying (FD+ …

Impact of post‐harvest processing or thermal dehydration on physiochemical, nutritional and sensory quality of shiitake mushrooms

S Subramaniam, S Jiao, Z Zhang… - … Reviews in Food …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Shiitake mushrooms are one of the most popular and highly consumed mushrooms
worldwide both in fresh and dry forms. However, it rapidly starts losing its quality …