Kombinasi Suhu Air dan Lama Perendaman pada Hydrocooling untuk Mempertahankan Kesegaran Sawi Hijau (Brassica juncea)

Abstract

Green cabbage is a vegetable which is susceptible to heat and easy to wilt. Hydrocooling treatment is an effort to preserve the freshness of green cabbage. The objective of hydrocooling treatment is to reduce field heat of material after harvesting. Based on that fact, this research was conducted to determine the combination of water temperature and immersion time in hydrocooling treatment which gives the best influence to preserving the quality of green cabbage. The method was to determine the optimal temperature of material based on the respiration rate and quality changes of green cabbage during storage. Then, the determination of the combination between water temperature and immersion time for hydrocooling conducted based on the optimal temperature and observes the hydrocooling effect in changes quality of green cabbage. The optimal temperature for green cabbage is 13oC. The result of water temperature and immersion time combination for reach the temperature of 13oC is: the hydrocooling on 5oC during 3.1 seconds and hydrocooling on 10°C during 3.9 seconds. Hydrocooling have a good influence on all quality parameters of green cabbage.