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Raspberry Shelf Life: What Causes Quality Loss After Harvest?
Raspberry postharvest quality problems include loss of firmness, color, and flavor, weight loss, microbial decay, physiological disorders, leakage, and rapid senescence. Raspberries’ characteristics, such as their high fruit respiration and transpiration rates, thin cuticle, and ethylene sensitivity, cause postharvest problems. Cold storage, high relative humidity, and an artificial controlled atmosphere of ethylene, oxygen, and carbon… Continue reading…
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Why Are My Readings Drifting During Long Storage Studies?
Gas analyzer drift is one of those problems that rarely shows up during a quick spot check, but it can become obvious during a long storage study. A reading that looked stable on day one may slowly move away from the expected trend after days or weeks of monitoring. In postharvest research, controlled atmosphere storage,… Continue reading…
What Is Crop Phenotyping and Why Is It Essential for Modern Crop Breeding?
Genetic diversity in wild relatives of crops can provide crucial inputs to improve food production. High-throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) methods can improve the efficiency of crop breeding research and crop monitoring in precision agriculture. Portable quality meters can be integrated into HTPP systems for biochemical and sensory fruit quality parameter phenotyping Crop phenotyping is the… Continue reading…
What Are the Latest Fresh Produce Storage Technologies Extending Shelf Life?
Technological innovations for storage have to slow the physiological processes that cause premature ripening, senescence, and quality loss, and shorten shelf life. Environmental factors such as temperature, relative humidity, and gas composition must be tailored to specific fresh produce to extend shelf life and preserve quality. Stakeholders need precise control over environmental factors to slow… Continue reading…
How Do Postharvest Microbial Treatments Extend Fresh Produce Shelf Life?
Fruits and vegetables harbor a microbiome on their surfaces that interacts with them to influence fruit quality. Fruit/plant-microbial interactions can be used in postharvest management to control spoilage microbes, thereby improving fresh produce quality and shelf-life. These microbial-plant/fruit interactions include competition, mycoparasitism, volatile secretions, microbial biofilms, quorum sensing, and systemic resistance induction. Postharvest spoilage, quality… Continue reading…
What Is Postharvest Physiology and Why Does It Matter for Fresh Produce Quality?
The crucial postharvest physiological processes that lead to deterioration in the quality of fresh produce include respiration, transpiration, ethylene production, and enzymatic activity. Temperature, air gas composition, relative humidity, and handling are common factors that can be controlled to slow these physiological processes. Maintaining and controlling the environment is essential to preserving quality and shelf… Continue reading…
How Often Should I Recalibrate My F-750 or F-751?
If you rely on an F-750 or F-751 Quality Meter for harvest timing, intake checks, ripeness management, or quality control, F-750 recalibration should be treated as part of your measurement routine, not as an afterthought. These Felix Instruments meters are designed for fast, non-destructive produce quality assessment, but like any NIR-based instrument, the quality of… Continue reading…
