SPOILAGE OF SPOTTED SEER(SCOMBEROMOROUS GUTTATUS) DURING ICE STORAGE.

Abstract

Quality deterioration of seer h.eld directly in contact with
ice, in different forms, fillets and chunks, and of chunks held
in ice but without direct contact, was studied for a period of
15 days. While the chunks held out of contact with ice were
acceptable upto 13 days based on organoleptic evaluations, the
chunks and fillets held in direct contact with ice were acceptable
only upto 10 days. The order of preference of the samples
at any interval of ice storage was chunks held out of contact
with ice> chunks held directly in ice> fillets held directly in ice.
The changes in the chemical quality of these samples were also
in the same order, the deterioration being maximum in fillets
and least in chunks kept out of contact with ice.