Exploitation of Antimicrobial Vegetable Volatiles and Active Packaging for Shelf-life Extension

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TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture Ltd ("TruLeaf", Bedford, Nova Scotia), specialising in in-door farming, isinterested to explore new strategies to extend the shelf-life of their products ready-to-eat/use baby green andmicrogreen products, which are susceptible to tissue injury and microbial growth during transportation. Bymanipulating the in-door growing conditions, exploiting different parts/blends of vegetables strategicallyselected from Brassicaceae family, and deploying bioactive volatiles, this project aims at developing apreservation system based on natural preservative to extend product shelf-life and increase productstability/yield. Besides benefiting TruLeaf, the envisaged technology will also benefit other Canadian vegetableproducers in producing high quality and safe ready-to-eat vegetables, which is an essential component of diet tomaintain good health. By extending product shelf-life to reduce product waste, the increased revenue will allowTruLeaf to expand their competitiveness in the marketplace.