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

TruLeaf可持续农业有限公司(“TruLeaf”，新斯科舍省贝德福德)，专门从事室内农业，有兴趣探索新的策略，以延长其即食/使用婴儿绿和微绿产品的货架寿命，这些产品在运输过程中容易受到组织损伤和微生物生长。本项目通过控制室内生长条件，利用十字花科蔬菜中精选的不同部位/混合物，并部署生物活性挥发物，旨在开发基于天然防腐剂的保鲜系统，以延长产品的货架期，提高产品的稳定性/产量。除了使TruLeaf受益外，设想中的技术还将使其他加拿大蔬菜生产商在生产高质量和安全的即食蔬菜方面受益，这是保持良好健康的饮食的重要组成部分。通过延长产品的保质期以减少产品浪费，增加的收入将使TruLeaf扩大其在市场上的竞争力。

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.