The Perfect Container that Keeps Your Chopped Onions Fresh for 2 Weeks.
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At Michigan State University in the United States, there is an unparalleled faculty in the world.
An academic department dedicated to the study of packaging and packaging.
There, in the School of Packaging , or Facultad del Envase, a scientist specializing in fresh fruits and vegetables , the Spanish Eva Almenar, a researcher passionate about the science of food.
Along with his colleagues, Almenar achieved something that seemed impossible: a container that keeps the onions sliced fresh for at least two weeks .
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The work on onions has just been published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology . But the Michigan team has been working on other products, such as celery cut and chopped tomatoes.
Finding the perfect packaging to extend the shelf life of cut and peeled products is a real challenge .
The key is to control the atmosphere inside the container , but the possible combinations of gases are endless. And each one of them affects uniquely the different foods.
This enormous complexity is precisely what excites Almenar. "There is so much science applied in this process that I truly enjoy the challenge," she told BBC World.
Modified atmosphere
Almenar focused on onions for the recent study because it is one of the top five "ready-to-eat" vegetables in the United States.
The sale of the product has grown "abysmally by consumer trends, which wants a clean product that can fry without the whole process of cutting and peeling the vegetable ."
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