skin would tend to melt faster. The phenomenon of peeling by
biochemical and physical changes would thereby accelerate,
resulting in a decreased process time. At the samefield strength,
when the NaCl concentration of the medium increases, the heat
generation in the medium would be quicker due to higher electrical
conductivity. The wax melting would accelerate, resulting in low
process time. Although cracking occurred faster at the higher
electricfield strengths, the quality of peeling was not as good as
that at the mid range of electricfield strengths. This may be because
the severity of the heat generation from higher electric field
strength treatments was great enough that the pectin in the middle
lamella of the mesocarp (edible part) and deeper parts may have
been liquefied, increasing weight loss and lesseningfirmness