| Center |
| Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences |
| Departament |
| Prev. Medicine, Public Health, Food Sc.,Toxic. and For. Med. |
| Lecturers in charge |
| H8122 - MARIA TERESA LAFUENTE RODRIGUEZ |
| Met. Docent |
| Theoretical and practical teaching. Programmed visits to different industries from the sector. Writing of memories of practices and voluntary, individual or collective directed works. Attention of the student . |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination and project work |
| Bibliografia |
| Storage, processing, and nutritional quality of fruits and vegetables. Vol, 1, Fresh fruits and vegetables. Edited by Salunkhe, Bolin and Reddy. CRC Press, Bocca Raton, Boston. ISBN 0-8493-5623-7 (1991) Postharvest Physiology of Vegetables. Edited by Weichmann. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-8247-7601-1. (1987) Biochemistry of fruit ripening. Edited by Seymour, Taylor and Tucker. Chapman & Hall. London. ISBN 0-412-40830-9. (1993) Postharvest Technology of Horticultural Crops. The Reagents of the University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. United States of America. ISBN 0-931876-72-9 (1985) |
| Continguts |
| To study the factors related to the qualitative and quantitative losses of vegetables products after being harvested. The physiological, biochemical and pathological aspects, as well as the compositional and physical changes will consider that happen during the maturation and the deterioration. To study the commercial proceedures of harvest, manipulation and storage based on the physiology and biochemistry of fruits and vegetables. |