SWEET PEPPER STORAGE METHOD Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A01F25/00 

FIELD: agriculture and food-processing industry, may be used in vegetable stores and public catering enterprises.

SUBSTANCE: method involves creating regulated medium and periodically smoking it with vapors of formaldehyde produced by mixing of 50 ml of formalin and 50 g of KMnO₄ per 1 m² of store surface; providing treatment combined with active ventilation at air flow rate of 100 m³/t of sweet pepper. Treatment with formaldehyde vapors may be performed at periodicity of once per week.

EFFECT: provision for creating of resource saving, ecologically clean, safe storage process, prolonged shelf life and retention of commercial appearance of pepper.

2 cl, 1 tbl