It is important to be remark that despite the untreated fruits
have presented high dehydration along the first week,
the experiment was extended for 12 days in order to determine the protective ability of coatings under the conditions adopted in this study.
Additionally, it should be mentioned that for all samples the standard deviation increases with storage time because of the different evolution of each of essayed sample.
Such variation among samples is natural and observed for several fruits during
dehydration measurements