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Reefer927 01-Oct-18 For sailing schedules, shipment booking and tracing, visit apl.com Refreshing, Crunchy Guava Made Possible Guavas are climacteric fruits with high rates of respiration. They tend to ripen rapidly during transit and storage, and continue to ripen post- harvest, thus making them a challenge to ship. They are picked based on size and will continue to ripen after harvest, hence causing their sugar content, color and flavor to change. Climacteric fruits have large increase in the production of heat, ethylene and carbo dioxide (CO 2 ) during the ripening process. SMARTcare has the ability to help guavas achieve and maintain their ideal in-transit atmosphere which: • Significantly reduces respiration and ethylene production rates • Maintains ideal texture and firmness • Delays ripening and softening of fruit For longer voyages, SMARTcare + is able to prolong shelf-life even further by gas flushing with food grade nitrogen to achieve optimum atmosphere. Using SMARTcare and SMARTcare + , our customers are able to ship guava safely over 3 weeks while maintaining the ideal texture and firmness, making it economically viable to ship from Taiwan to Canada. (Controlled Atmosphere) (Regulated Atmosphere)
