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Abstract

A cost-effective packaging and preservation process for initiating and controlling the ripening rates of a perishable food product, and more particularly, banana fruit, having different maturity stages followed by uniform ripening, good internal and external fruit quality and normal development of flavor and aroma characteristics. A polymeric perforated package is provided which controls the atmosphere within the package as the fruit progresses through its ripening stages so as to not appreciably delay ripening to an intermediate ripening stage, but to delay ripening, and thus shelf life, of the food product beyond such intermediate ripening stage.

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