Take care of your Fruit in 1-2-3
All crops are exposed to the Earth, sun, rain or wind for weeks or months and with this they not only gather physicochemical attributes of taste, smell and color or nutritional composition, but are also exposed to bacteria, fungi that insects go depositing organic matter on the surface of the crops, each time they come into contact with them. This material causes problems in crops that could make it difficult to market.
The 1-2-3 of the post-harvest allows us to safeguard the nutritional composition of flavor, smell and texture of fruits and vegetables, which allows them to be maintained during the time it takes to go from harvest to marketing. To keep the crops clean and healthy, a washing, disinfection and beautification process must be carried out, which improves their image and prevents rotting, which allows us to extend the shelf life to the end customer.
To achieve this goal, it is necessary to remove all this organic matter from the fruits before thinking about the disinfection process, which is why the first thing to do is wash with a specialized detergent that has the ability to sweep away this organic matter from insects. , rain or wind and leave a clean fruit to facilitate the disinfection procedure, for now if you can eliminate any inoculum or spore that has a pathogen that can take away its useful life and reduce its quality. After washing and disinfecting, which are steps 1 and 2, beautification would come as step 3, to make the fruit or vegetable more attractive in terms of brightness and maintain its firmness and the desired texture. Since, if this step is skipped, the crop could lose water and the crop could soften or wilt depending on the case. With the third step, this would prevent the fruit from losing weight and lengthening the shelf life to achieve better marketing.