Proximate and Nutritional Composition of Stored Bulb Onions as Affected by Harvest and Postharvest Treatments

Table 1

Proximate analysis of stored bulb onions as affected by postharvest treatments.

Factors	Treatments	Moisture content (%)	Bulb weight loss (g)	Crude protein (g/100g)
Harvesting stage	75% top fall	81.89 A	72.06 C	0.75 A
	50% top fall	76.70 B	86.07 B	0.57 B
	25% top fall	72.09 C	173.82 A	0.39 C
	value	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
	Standard error	0.067	0.816	0.004
Curing period	2-week curing	81.19 A	78.90 C	0.86 A
	1-week curing	76.66 B	114.54 B	0.45 B
	No curing	72.84 C	138.51 A	0.40 C
	value	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
	Standard error	0.067	0.816	0.004
Topping time	Topping after	78.06 A	103.81 B	0.70 A
	Topping before	75.72 B	117.50 A	0.43 B
	value	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
	Standard error	0.054	0.666	0.004
Seasonal variations	Season 1	80.03 A	116.01 A	0.56
	Season 2	73.75 B	105.30 B	0.57
	value	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.477
	Standard error	0.054	0.666	0.012

Means followed by the same letter within the column are not significantly different based on SNK at alpha = 0.05, n = 108.