Influence of Secondary Packaging on Quality of Carrots During Transportation

The aim of this research is to know the influence of packaging on quality change of carrots during transportation. While this research specifically aims to (1) find out the influence of the type of secondary packaging on quality of carrots during transport, (2) know the influence of the type of secondary packaging on quality of carrots with different transport time. This research uses the packaging plastic baskets, wooden crates and plastic bag. The distance from the production center in Ciherang market to Bogor and later to Kramat Jati market in Jakarta which assumed l transport simulation per each is 1 hour and 2 hours. Furthermore from each taken sample then we evaluated the firmness, carrot losses and weight losses. The highest damage in 1 hour and 2 hour occur for samples used plastic bags (30.4% and 48.6%), then the highest weights losses for crate are 1 hour (1.3%), 2 hours (2.0%), the highest firmness found is (2 N) for 1 hour and 2 hours (3 N).