Wound healing, keeping quality, and compositional changes during curing and storage of sweet potatoes

Leonard L. Morris and Louis K. Mann

Hilgardia, 1955, vol. 24, issue 7

Abstract: California’s mild climate has led to handling and storage practices with sweet potatoes that do not necessarily provide optimum conditions for wound healing. Experiments were conducted during a four-year period with three varieties on San Joaquin Valley farms to determine whether a curing period in a warm house, such as is customary in other areas, would favor wound healing and reduce storage losses and quality changes. A two-week curing period in a warm house, with a temperature of around 85° F and high relative humidity, was compared with a similar period in a field pile, the method commonly used in California, and with direct placement in an unheated storage house.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1955
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