Guar Gum as an Edible Coating for Enhancing Shelf-Life and Improving Postharvest Quality of Roma Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

Table 2

Microbial plate counts of uncoated and coated (edible guar gum) Roma tomatoes.

	Uncoated		Coated
Storage time (days)	0	20	0	20
Mesophilic bacteria; (CFU/g)	480	1460	480	960
Yeast and molds; (CFU/g)	520	1580	530	1030

Means followed by different letters in the same column are significantly different by Tuckey’s test .