It is difficult to store commercial quantities of apricots for more than two to three weeks. When stored, apricots decay very quickly from brown rot and rhizopus rot. Fruit should be precooled as quickly as possible following harvest to temperatures below 4ºC(4OºF) but around OºC(32ºF). The breakdown of apricots is similar to that of peaches in that a browning occurs around the seed with softening of the flesh. This process usually appears some two weeks after harvest.
Packaging Method:
Peakfresh carton liners can be used for the short term packaging of apricots. We recommend that sheets of Peakfresh be used in the bottom and top of bulk packed apricots. Where apricots are packed in preformed plastic tray or similar tray, then a sheet of Peakfresh film pre-cut to the size of the top of the box be placed over the top of the fruit. This application has two benefits, the first is to maintain relative humidity and the second to provide a small surface area of Peakfresh film to treat small volumes of ethylene gas.
Recommended Post Harvest Temperatures:
OºC (32ºF) and 90-95% relative humidity.
IMPORTANT. Please read. All recommendations for the use of Peakfresh products are given in good faith and based on proven field experience. Packaging method storage temperatures and humidity levels, transit and destination conditions are factors likely to affect the performance of Peakfresh products and no liability for indirect or consequential damage can be accepted. We recommend that Peakfresh products be trialed under local conditions before introduction to large scale commercial applications.
