In order to alleviate excessive softening of processed white radish foods in the high temperature sterilization, the effect of blanching on hardness and cell-wall compositions of white radish was investigated and the correlation between hardness and pectin contents of the cell-wall were discussed by blanching treatment under different temperature and time. The results shown before the high temperature sterilization, compared with the untreated sample, the samples during blanching treatment at 55 ~C, 85 min, the hardness increased 133%, the water soluble pectin content of cell walls decreased 2...