What temperature should Oranges be stored at?
Recommended cold store temperature, relative humidity, storage life and freezing point for Oranges; storage notes and cooling load calculation.
Recommended storage conditions
- Storage temperature
- 3 – 9 °C
- Relative humidity
- 85–90%
- Storage life
- 3–8 weeks
- Storage temperature
- 3 – 9 °C
- Relative humidity
- 85–90%
- Storage life
- 3–8 weeks
- Freezing point
- −0.8 °C
- Ethylene production
- Very low
- Ethylene sensitivity
- Moderate
- Chilling injury
- below 3 °C
- Product group
- Fruit
- Suffers chilling injury below 3 °C: skin pitting, discoloration and rapid decay. Do not store it in a colder room.
- Pre-cool as soon as possible after harvest; produce entering the store at field heat loses quality and adds to the cooling load.
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Products in the same group: Fruit
- ApplesStorage life: 3–6 months · Freezing point −1.5 °C−1 – 4 °C · 90–95%
- PearsStorage life: 2–7 months · Freezing point −1.7 °C−1.5 – −0.5 °C · 90–95%
- QuincesStorage life: 2–3 months · Freezing point −2 °C−0.5 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- Table grapesStorage life: 1–6 months · Freezing point −2.7 °C−1 – −0.5 °C · 90–95%
- CherriesStorage life: 2–3 weeks · Freezing point −1.8 °C−1 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- Sour cherriesStorage life: 3–7 days · Freezing point −1.7 °C−1 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- ApricotsStorage life: 1–3 weeks · Freezing point −1.1 °C−0.5 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- PeachesStorage life: 2–4 weeks · Freezing point −0.9 °C−0.5 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- PlumsStorage life: 2–5 weeks · Freezing point −0.8 °C−0.5 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- StrawberriesStorage life: 5–10 days · Freezing point −0.8 °C0 °C · 90–95%
- Fresh figsStorage life: 7–10 days · Freezing point −2.4 °C−0.5 – 0 °C · 85–90%
- PomegranatesStorage life: 2–3 months · Freezing point −3 °C5 °C · 90–95%
- LemonsStorage life: 1–6 months · Freezing point −1.4 °C10 – 13 °C · 85–90%
- MandarinsStorage life: 2–4 weeks · Freezing point −1.1 °C4 – 7 °C · 90–95%
- GrapefruitStorage life: 6–8 weeks · Freezing point −1.1 °C10 – 15 °C · 85–90%
- BananasStorage life: 1–4 weeks · Freezing point −0.8 °C13 – 14 °C · 90–95%
- KiwifruitStorage life: 3–5 months · Freezing point −0.9 °C−0.5 – 0 °C · 90–95%
- MelonsStorage life: 2–3 weeks · Freezing point −1.1 °C7 – 10 °C · 85–90%
- WatermelonsStorage life: 2–3 weeks · Freezing point −0.4 °C10 – 15 °C · 90%
- PersimmonsStorage life: 3–4 months · Freezing point −2.2 °C−1 – 0 °C · 90%
- DatesStorage life: 6–12 months · Freezing point −15.7 °C0 °C · 70–75%
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