2. Materials and methods
2.1. Blueberries
Individually quick frozen (IQF) rabbiteye blueberry cultivars
‘Brightwell’ and ‘Powderblue’ from the first and second harvests of
the year 2010 were selected for this study. Blueberries were
machine graded as A and C (US Department of Agriculture-
Agricultural Marketing Services, 22 FR 3535 x52.613). The frozen
blueberries were obtained in 13.6 kg boxes from Alma Pak Industries
(Alma, GA) and stored at below 18 C until used.