mango fruit showed a continuous increase in fruit weight loss during the entire ripening period. However, oxalic acid treatments showed lower weight loss. Fruit loss their weight mainly due to respiration and transpiration through skin and various metabolic activities . Reduced weight loss in oxalic acid treated fruit may be due to slower metabolic process and reduced respiration rate. Previously, pre-storage oxalic acid treatments reduced the weight loss in pomegranate fruit stored at 2.c for 84 day.