Effects of some fungicides on the flavour of fruits and syrups

✍ Scribed by Alice Crang; G. M. Clarke

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 607 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5142
• DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.2740120312

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The effects of the fungicides captan, Karathane (Dinocap), thiram and lime‐sulphur on the flavour of fruits and acidified syrups have been assessed before and after bottling, canning and freezing. Captan at 5 p.p.m. increased the rate of corrosion of the cans and caused some taint in canned and bottled syrups, but was not detected before processing; when used as a spray on strawberries it caused slight taint of fresh or canned fruit in two yearly tests out of five. Karathane at 10 p.p.m. was not detected in the syrup and had no effect on the cans; it caused no taint in one year's trials on gooseberries and strawberries. Thiram at 2 p.p.m. increased the rate of corrosion of cans and caused distinct taint in canned, but not in bottled, syrups, although it was not readily detected before processing; it caused marked taint in much of the fruit tested over five years, especially after canning.