Resumen de Post-harvesting conservation of prosopis juliflora's pod in Alagoas
E.P.R. Amorin, C.R. Cabral Jr, E.C. Miranda, D.A. Silva, I.G. Guimaraes, C.C. Miranda
This study had the aim to evaluate the influence of different dehydration and storage periods and fungi occurrence on the carob pod chemical composition. The work was conducted in the Universidade Federal de Alagoas-Brazil, during September to December, 2002. The experimental design was entirely randomized with a 3 x 3 outline. The nine treatments, resulted from combination of the factors dehydration (24 hours under shadow exposure; 12 and 24 hours under solar exposition) and storage (pods non-storage; pods storage by 30 and 60 days), were composed by 4 replications. Before analyzing process, the material was dried in regulated stove to 65°C with forced circulation, crushed and conserved in regulated freezer to -5°C. The studied variables were: dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), ether extract (EE), crude fiber (CF) and mineral matter (MM). The results indicate that the dehydration influenced significantly (p<0.05) the MM. In relation to storage, there was significant difference (p<0.05) for all analyzed variables. It was observed significant interaction (p<0.05) for CP, CF and MM.
