Firmness of fruit is an important factor which affects the quality
of fruit. The combination of CaCl2 treatment and MAP has retained
the firmness of strawberry and pear slices (Rosen and Kader, 1989),
‘Golden Delicious’ apples (Soliva-Fortuny et al., 2003) and freshcut
‘Piel de Sapo’ melons (Oms-Oliu et al., 2007).