The treatments were: Control (fruit not coated or dipped in any treatment); AL 1% (strawberry tree fruit coated with sodium alginate (10 g/L)); AL 1% + Citral 0.15% (citral 1.50 g/L); AL 1% + Citral 0.3% (citral 3.00 g/L); AL 1% + Eugenol 0.1% (eugenol 1.00 g/L); AL 1% + Eugenol 0.2% (eugenol 2.00 g/L); AL 1% + Citral 0.15% + Eugenol 0.1%; AL 2% (strawberry tree fruit coated with sodium alginate (20 g/L)); AL 2% + Citral 0.15%; AL 2% + Citral 0.3%; AL 2% + Eugenol 0.1%; AL 2% + Eugenol 0.2% and AL 2% + Citral 0.15% + Eugenol 0.1%