Handbook of Pineapple Technology (eBook)

Dr Maria Gloria Lobo, Tenured Scientist, Tropical Fruits Department, Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias, Canary Islands, Spain Dr Robert E. Paull, Professor and Researcher, Department of Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, United States

List of contributors, vi

Preface, viii

1 Overview of pineapple production, postharvest physiology, processing and nutrition 1
María Gloria Lobo and Muhammad Siddiq

2 Pineapple breeding and production practices 16
Robert E. Paull, Duane P. Bartholomew and Ching-Cheng Chen

3 Biology and postharvest physiology of pineapple 39
María Gloria Lobo and Elhadi Yahia

4 Pests, diseases and weeds 62
Brent Sipes and Koon-Hui Wang

5 Pineapple harvesting and postharvest handling 89
Robert E. Paull, Nancy Jung Chen and Parson Saradhuldhat

6 Packaging technologies for pineapple and pineapple products 108
Vanee Chonhenchob, Daisy Tanafranca and S. Paul Singh

7 Canned, frozen and dried pineapple 126
Lee-Fong Siow and Kar-Hing Lee

8 Pineapple juice and concentrates 140
Lucia Maria Jaeger de Carvalho, Gloria Panadés Ambrosio, María Gabriela Bello Koblitz, Flavio de Souza Neves Cardoso and José Luiz Viana de Carvalho

9 Fresh-cut pineapple 153
Marta Montero-Calderón and Olga Martín-Belloso

10 Innovative processing technologies for pineapple processing 175
Jasim Ahmed and Muhammad Siddiq

11 Value added processing and utilization of pineapple by-products 196
Eva Dorta and Dalbir S. Sogi

12 Pineapple composition and nutrition 221
Begoña de Ancos, Concepción Sánchez-Moreno and Gustavo Adolfo González-Aguilar

13 Functional properties of pineapple 240
Gustavo Rubén Valderrain-Rodríguez, Begoña de Ancos, Concepción Sánchez-Moreno and Gustavo Adolfo González-Aguilar

Index 258