To create humid condition of storage, a layer of wet paper was placed in the bottom of the large boxes. The ‘Sweet Heart’ cherries were kept 10 d
at 20
±
1 ◦C, 95% to 98% relative humidity (RH), while the ‘Burlat’
cherries were stored for 14 d at 0.5
±
1 ◦C, and then exposed to 7 d
of shelf-life at 20
±
1 ◦C, 95% to 98% RH.