  {"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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 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}]}}