Modification of the colour of dessert strawberries subjected to pulse electric field

. The article presents the results of the impact of the pulsed electric field (PEF) on the modification of strawberry colour. The study concerned dessert strawberries. The electric field intensity of 5 kV/cm and 10 kV/cm was used. The CIELab system was used to assess the colour. It was shown that at the intensity of 5 kV/cm, the red component in the colour of the fruit increased by 19% in relation to the fruit not treated with PEF. This is important in the context of the content of the health-promoting anthocyanin pigments of pelargodnidin-3-glucosides, which give strawberries a red colour. The modification of strawberries with the use of an electric field also reduced the brightness of the color by 16.1%. Streszczenie