{"id":131444,"date":"2025-06-20T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131444"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:00:09","slug":"chinese-teams-edible-fruit-coating-can-more-than-double-shelf-life-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131444","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team\u2019s edible fruit coating can more than double shelf life: paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have developed an edible, washable protein-based coating that can extend the shelf life of fruits by 2\u00bd times, by reducing moisture loss and microbial growth.<br \/>\nThe low-cost coating was tested across 17 varieties of whole and cut fruits, including strawberry, tomato, kiwi and mango. It was shown to effectively delay rot by almost a week or more, at a cost of just 9 US cents per kilogram of fruit, according to a recent paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.<br \/>\nThe&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3314644\/chinese-scientists-create-edible-fruit-coating-more-doubles-shelf-life?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have developed an edible, washable protein-based coating that can extend the shelf life of fruits by 2\u00bd times, by reducing moisture loss&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}