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How Fruit Quality Monitoring Improves Sustainability and Reduces Food Loss
Fruit quality monitoring is an integral part of the fresh produce supply chain. Fruit quality monitoring improves productivity and reduces food loss on farm and postharvest stages to enhance food security and responsible production. The environmental impacts indirectly through quality monitoring are reduced carbon footprint, less water resource depletion and pollution, and better biodiversity protection… Continue reading…
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How the Fruit Ripening Process Affects Freshness and Quality
Respiratory rate, ethylene sensitivity, and production are the main criteria for differentiating ripening patterns. Respiratory peaks that trigger ethylene production start the ripening process in climacteric fruits. Ethylene sensitivity, production, and respiration hike are minimal or absent in non-climacteric fruits. Several fruits show varying degrees of ethylene sensitivity and production and defy neat classification in… Continue reading…
How to Improve Mango Quality: Latest Research Findings from 2023
Research on mango in 2023 focuses on finetuning available information, whether postharvest treatment or optimizing chemometric models. Studies are increasingly focused on investigating underlying enzyme activity and gene expressions to find why and how observed quality changes occur. The emphasis is on optimizing quality not just for profits but also to make food production more… Continue reading…
Fruit Cuticle Impact on Postharvest Quality: What You Need to Know
The cuticle is crucial in the postharvest stages as it is the interface between fruits and external biotic and abiotic conditions. Cuticle impact on postharvest quality has several protective functions and is a barrier to water loss, mechanical injuries, UV light, and pest and microbial attacks. It can also alter postharvest fruit firmness and appearance.… Continue reading…
Understanding Fresh Produce Spoilage: Five Causes and Prevention
Various reasons are behind the fresh produce spoilage of the vast diversity of fruits and vegetables. Respiration, transpiration, microbial growth, damage and injury, and internal degradation are common causes. Product-specific temperature thresholds, relative humidity, ethylene, oxygen, and carbon dioxide are the five ambient conditions that determine the spoilage rate. Controlling ambient conditions helps to reduce… Continue reading…
Enhancing Avocado Quality: Comprehensive Insights into Production and Postharvest Techniques
Scientists are trying to optimize growing conditions, such as tree density and pollinator numbers, for better avocado quality. Studies also focus on the factors that will influence storage conditions. Country of origin emerges as a crucial factor, along with variety, in determining optimum temperatures. Multivariate models are recommended to reduce ripening heterogeneity in the supply… Continue reading…
How to Extend the Shelf Life of Fresh Produce: Innovations in Gas Monitoring and Controlled Atmospheres
Extend the shelf life of fresh produce: Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ethylene are monitored in all postharvest stages, including controlled atmosphere storage and transport facilities and modified atmosphere packaging. Ethylene is monitored to manage and maintain fresh produce quality, ripeness, and shelf life by detecting ethylene accumulation hotspots. Oxygen and carbon dioxide estimation helps to… Continue reading…
