METHOD FOR RETAINING FRESHNESS OF VEGETABLES AND FRUITS OR THE LIKE

摘要

PURPOSE: To provide a method for preventing phenomenon in which freshness of vegetables and fruits are not retained by ethylene produced and released by vegetables and fruits such as apple and retaining freshness of vegetables and fruits over a long period. CONSTITUTION: A culture medium in which at least one or more bacteria of Pseudomonas cepacia, Bacillus cereus and Rhodococcus erythropolis, preferably these three bacteria exist is arranged near vegetables and fruits. Consequently, the method does not need to use an expensive storage equipment and an expensive ethylene absorbing agent causing lowering of ethylene-absorbing ability with the lapse of time and is capable of readily obtaining a microorganism having ethylene decomposing ability and suitable for living of microorganisms and capable of readily finding conditions as a culture medium capable of arranging in the neighborhood of vegetables and fruits.