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- Shapiro Ilan, David
- 2023
- Food Safety, (Animal and Plant Products) (108)
- Product Quality and New Uses (306)

Research Project: **Location:
                            Fruit and Tree Nut Research** Project Number: 6042-41000-001-000-D
                        
                        Project Type: In-House Appropriated Start Date: May 8, 2023
                        
                        End Date: Sep 30, 2026 **Objective:**
                        
                        Determine factors and approaches that impact pecan safety, quality, and marketability of pecans. This includes developing new and improved pecan processing technologies, such as pasteurization and cracking/shelling, for improved storage and safety, while maintaining nutmeat quality and nutrition. **Approach:**
                        
                        Developing novel nut shelling and associated processing techniques to minimize physical nutmeat damage, contamination, and loss of quality postharvest; and  improving understanding of pre-harvest and postharvest environmental factors that impact pecan color, texture, oil quality, and phytochemical content to identify conditions that maximize duration of quality. To better understand food safety risks associated with pecans, the project will address factors that influence the survival and persistence of foodborne pathogens and identify effective mitigation strategies while maintaining nut quality. In order to maximize marketability, the project will explore means to cost-effectively increase intact pecan meat extraction by modifying parametrized process variables on existing processing equipment.


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