Exposure to Volatile Essential Oils of Myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) Leaves for Improving the Postharvest Storability of Fresh Loquat Fruits

Table 3

Effects of cold storage on the different quality attributes (average of five different treatments) of loquat fruits during 42 days of storage.

Storage duration	WL (%)	DI (%)	BI	Firmness	SSC	TA
At harvest	0.00 g	0.00 c	0.00 d	0.42 e	11.52 c	0.98 c
7 days	1.60 f	0.00 c	0.03 d	0.39 f	10.39 e	0.76 e
14 days	4.50 e	2.89 c	0.19 c	0.43 e	9.82 f	0.66 f
21 days	8.66 d	6.22 c	0.28 bc	0.47 d	10.99 e	0.59 f
28 days	11.88 c	10.22 c	0.31 bc	0.51 c	11.27 cd	0.89 d
35 days	14.96 b	48.67 b	0.39 ab	0.57 b	12.08 b	1.12 b
42 days	20.60 a	83.56 a	0.45 a	0.61 a	12.73 a	1.42 a

Means of quality attributes in the same column with the same letters showed no significant differences according to Tukey’s HSD test at .