MacView DCS Gas Analyser
- DCS Automatic for the best fruit quality
- Storing fruit at the lowest O2 level will provide the best fruit quality (source: FBR Wageningen)
- Better firmness, better shelf life compared to CA
- DCS Automatic is an alternative for DPA
- Maximum reduction of scald, skin spots and pit rot
- Non chemical treatment
- Natural ripening after storage, better taste!!
- Better appearance of the product
- DCSTM represents a quality label
- Guarantees on freshness and quality can be realized on a better way
- DCS can be used as an alternative for smartfresh / or be used in combination with smartfresh
- Red delicoius: Reducing scald - Preservering the firmness excellent - Better taste - Fresher appearance - Consumers do appreciate the apples better - DCS against age decay and flesh brown - Possible detection of decay
- Select a good marker for the lowest oxygen threshold were fermentation will start
- Respiration: C6H12O6 + 6O2 -> 6CO2 + 6H20 +energy/volatiles
- Fermentation: C6H12O6 -> 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2+energy/volatiles
- The production of ethanol is a direct marker for the start of fermentation
- “Ethanol is the only known direct marker for fermentation”( Jan Verschoor Senior CA researcher WUR Wageningen)
- For this reason we develop the ‘DCS Automatic’ system for measuring the start of ethanol production by fruits during a O2 pull down in steps