{"id":1049,"date":"2019-07-18T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/foodscience\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:53:58","slug":"three-students-work-to-prevent-mold-on-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/2019\/three-students-work-to-prevent-mold-on-blueberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Science students research the use of good bacteria to prevent mold on blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Food Science students research the use of good bacteria to prevent mold on blueberries\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/veeterzy-Hc42xXu_WOg-unsplash-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blueberries are nutritious, containing numerous vitamins, minerals, and phenolic antioxidants. They are also prone to spoilage by molds. Research by three students from Carleton University\u2019s Food Science program found that beneficial bacteria could reduce or stop the growth of some molds on blueberries during storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Head u-font-serif u-h2 u-margin-s-ver\" id=\"screen-reader-main-title\"><span class=\"title-text\"><em>&#8220;Bacillus<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Pseudomonas<\/em>&nbsp;spp. provide antifungal activity against gray mold and&nbsp;<em>Alternaria<\/em> rot on blueberry fruit&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Head u-font-serif u-h2 u-margin-s-ver\"><span class=\"title-text\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1049964418301890?via%3Dihub\">here<\/a> for the article.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blueberries are nutritious, containing numerous vitamins, minerals, and phenolic antioxidants. They are also prone to spoilage by molds. Research by three students from Carleton University\u2019s Food Science program found that beneficial bacteria could reduce or stop the growth of some molds on blueberries during storage. &#8220;Bacillus&nbsp;and&nbsp;Pseudomonas&nbsp;spp. provide antifungal activity against gray mold and&nbsp;Alternaria rot on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/foodscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}