Articles
EMERGING POSTHARVEST TECHNOLOGIES
Article number
1079_3
Pages
47 – 52
Language
English
Abstract
Over the last decade, the fruit quality concept has evolved from a large bright red color to a flavorful, healthy, ready-to-eat, easy-to-eat, and safe fruit with high consumer acceptance.
Current consumer preferences, hand labor costs, fruit prices, human safety concerns, and global markets have been forcing changes in the pro-duction and delivery of fresh fruit.
Immediately after harvest, fruits begin to senesce, deteriorate and postharvest losses occur.
As part of the fruit senescence process, commodities start to lose weight, firmness, flavor, and become more susceptible to cold storage stresses.
Temperature and other environmental factors surrounding commodities control the biological processes associated with fruit senescence and deterioration.
Breeding efforts using new genetic tools are now used to develop fruit that ripen uniformly in the canopy with diverse predominant visual, shape, flavor, and texture attributes; and physiological traits at ripening adapted to minimally processed fruit.
Because of recent advances in new nondestructive sensor technology and the long-term lack of flavor in the market, there is high interest in using nonde-structive sensors to segregate fruit in the packing line according to their posthar-vest/shelf life potential and consumer acceptance.
However, consumers should be willing to pay a premium to justify the extra cost of using any new nondestructive sensor technology.
Current consumer preferences, hand labor costs, fruit prices, human safety concerns, and global markets have been forcing changes in the pro-duction and delivery of fresh fruit.
Immediately after harvest, fruits begin to senesce, deteriorate and postharvest losses occur.
As part of the fruit senescence process, commodities start to lose weight, firmness, flavor, and become more susceptible to cold storage stresses.
Temperature and other environmental factors surrounding commodities control the biological processes associated with fruit senescence and deterioration.
Breeding efforts using new genetic tools are now used to develop fruit that ripen uniformly in the canopy with diverse predominant visual, shape, flavor, and texture attributes; and physiological traits at ripening adapted to minimally processed fruit.
Because of recent advances in new nondestructive sensor technology and the long-term lack of flavor in the market, there is high interest in using nonde-structive sensors to segregate fruit in the packing line according to their posthar-vest/shelf life potential and consumer acceptance.
However, consumers should be willing to pay a premium to justify the extra cost of using any new nondestructive sensor technology.
Publication
Authors
C.H. Crisosto, L. Ferguson , J. Rodriguez-Bermejo
Keywords
‘super fruit’, nondestructive sensors, inline segregation, directed airflow, genomics approach, robotics
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